The Deconstruction of the Masculine in the Feminine Writings: From Gender Conflict to a Scriptural Consensus? Cover Image

La déconstruction du masculine dans les écrits féminins : du conflit des genres à un consensus scripturaire ?
The Deconstruction of the Masculine in the Feminine Writings: From Gender Conflict to a Scriptural Consensus?

Author(s): Sabrina Fatmi
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Biblical studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: conflict; feminine; masculine; gender; writing; strategy; consensus

Summary/Abstract: In our contribution, we would like to propose the study of some fictional works by certain Maghrebi writers who occupy the stage of writing in the era of postcolonialism. The angle we choose in our contribution focuses on regularly asked authors on their feminine and feminist relationships as well as their relationship to the masculine through the representation(s) they give in their fiction. We therefore propose an active reading from a gender perspective by seeking its presence and function in targeted post-colonial literary texts. The idea would be to show that nothing is spontaneous in writing and that gender conflicts leading to the dominance of one genre over another must have an impact on its positioning and its wording in the text. We aim to highlight the scriptural strategies representative of a “gendered” writing, relating to the conflict between genres, and Strategies aiming at an identity consensus based on the abolition of the father, the androgynous disguise or the sexual instrumentalisation of the man: reaction of a dominant order that has lasted too long, that of male supremacy over the feminine.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 125-133
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French