BABA, Nouzha Transcultural Reflections on Identity, Memory and Gender in Naima El Bezaz’s Vinexvrouwen

Nouzha BABA

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BABA, Nouzha Transcultural Reflections on Identity, Memory and Gender in Naima El Bezaz’s Vinexvrouwen

Authors:

Nouzha BABA

Publisher:

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco

Journal:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES المجلة الدولية للدراسات الجندرية متعددة التخصصات: ميدوسا و الفكر المعاصر Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.0-0

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Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

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2001844371

pISSN:

2737-8373

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Abstract:

 The Moroccan-Dutch author, Naima El Bezaz’s Vinexvrouwen (Suburban women, 2011) is a productive literary form of self-representation, of writing real-life experiences, stories and memories in the Dutch multicultural milieu. Engaged in an intercultural debate, the author questions the tolerance border of patriarchal (Islamic) culture, as well as the intolerance of Dutch liberal society. Through my close-reading as a method of analysis, I probe how the novel translates the experience of a Moroccan migrant woman and which negotiations take place in this translation. The significance of my reading unfolds, in particular, the text’s intervention in negotiating cultures and identities, drawing upon the polarization between Moroccan patriarchal culture and Dutch liberal culture. Approaching literature of (Moroccan) migration as a historical “cultural archive” as well as a performative counter-discourse, I analyse how the text rethinks the issues of identity, memory and gender in an attempt to destabilize patriarchal gender construction and sexuality norms. Finally, with a focus on rhetorical devices in form and language, this article illustrates how El Bezaz’s novel narrates reflections on transcultural dynamics of identity, memory and gender, inscribing thereby transculturing autobiography in times of globalization.1.

Article Details

BABA, Nouzha Transcultural Reflections on Identity, Memory and Gender in Naima El Bezaz’s Vinexvrouwen

Authors:

Nouzha BABA

Publisher:

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco

Journal:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES المجلة الدولية للدراسات الجندرية متعددة التخصصات: ميدوسا و الفكر المعاصر Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001844371

pISSN:

2737-8373

iterature of migration

Vinexvrouwen

autobiography

(post-) migration

migrant woman’s experience

transculturality

identity

memory and gender

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Article Details

Authors: Nouzha BABA

Publisher: Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco

Journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES المجلة الدولية للدراسات الجندرية متعددة التخصصات: ميدوسا و الفكر المعاصر Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 10/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001844371

pISSN: 2737-8373

Issues

Authors:

Nouzha BABA

Publisher:

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco

Journal:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES المجلة الدولية للدراسات الجندرية متعددة التخصصات: ميدوسا و الفكر المعاصر Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001844371

pISSN:

2737-8373