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Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 388-406
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Remembrance of Things Past: Leila Abouzeid and Moroccan National History

LIAT KOZMA

National history is a site in which the interpretation of past events is constantly negotiated. National history is often used by national elites to justify and reinforce existing gender and class relations. Feminist authors, as part of their struggle to transform women's roles in their societies, sometimes choose to challenge dominant versions of the history and offer alternative versions of the national past. In this article, I look at the novella The Year of the Elephant, by Moroccan novelist and journalist Leila Abouzeid, as an attempt to reread and rewrite Moroccan national history from the margins, and as an endeavor to promote a feminist agenda.


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