L'imaginaire à l'épreuve du carcéral : le pouvoir des mots dans Cette fille-là de Marssa Bey et La voyeuse interdite de Nina Bouraoui

Authors

Chedli Jedidi, Université Laval

Abstract

The article analyzes the (re)configuration of space towards female resistance in Cette fille-là by Marssa Bey and La voyeuse interdite by Nina Bouraoui. The two authors portray deviant female characters who refuse to be caught up in the social enclave governed by patriarchal law. In these works, the assertion of identity is interdependent on the unfolding of space which opts for denouncing or liberating the voice, the body and the feminine individuality. By convening the imagination along with the female memory, these marginal identities engage in bending the confinement and freeing the speech. Clothed in presumed fragility and weakness, this female minority which asserts its difference implements strategies of resistance to right its reality.

Recommended Citation

Jedidi, Chedli (2020) "L'imaginaire à l'épreuve du carcéral : le pouvoir des mots dans Cette fille-là de Marssa Bey et La voyeuse interdite de Nina Bouraoui," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 94: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol94/iss1/9