Year of the Elephant A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence

Name: Year of the Elephant A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence
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ISBN: 9780292796034

ISBN-10: 029279603X

ISBN-13: 9780292796034

Edition: 1989

Authors: Leila Abouzeid, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Barbara M. Parmenter

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"At a time when there is growing interest in the intersections between gender and war, Year of the Elephant provides an unselfconscious enterprise of self-affirmation." World Literature Today "Leila Abouzeid has created a new style, a mosaic of expression with which she describes her old and yet new world of Morocco." Ahmed Abd al-Salam al-Bakkah, Moroccan author and poet In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both obstacles and support systems change as she actively…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 129
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Map


Year of the Elephant (novella)


Short Stories


A House in the Woods


A Vacation


The Discontented


Divorce


Silence


Dinner in the Black Market


The Stranger


Out of Work


Glossary