C’ÉTAIT TUNIS. 1920 (RÉCIT DE VIE) : MÉMOIRES DE L’ENFANCE DE MAHERZIA AMIRA-BOURNAZ
C’ÉTAIT TUNIS. 1920 (RÉCIT DE VIE): MEMORIES OF MAHERZIA AMIRA-BOURNAZ’S CHILDWOOD

Summary/Abstract: Tunisian writer emeritus of the twentieth century (March 2000), Maherzia Amira-Bournaz (1912-2002) is a follower of autobiographical narrative as a retrospective account of the writer’s life (Lejeune, Le pacte autobiographique 1975) and the condition of the Arab woman. In our study, we propose to re-analyze C’était Tunis. 1920 (récit de vie) as an autobiography and a retrospective narrative where Maherzia Amira-Bournaz, author and character of her own novel, resorts to her memory and recreates the story of her life: the complete picture of her childhood (in a country where the access of the Arab girl to education was very limited) and the mentalities and customs of the Arab family, as an authentic document of the life of Tunisia in the 1920s, under the French Protectorate.

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