Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of New Mexico, 2001
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index
Tactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem, an inquiry into how silence may be used to challenge a gender-differentiated power system, relies on Michel de Certeau's model of strategies and tactics applied to a postcolonial assessment of both Algerian literature in French as well as Algerian women's stereotyped silence. This book analyzes the relationship between tactical silence and freedom in the lives of Mokeddem's female protagonists in all her novels, published between 1990 and 2008. The notion of deliberate silence also lends itself to a discussion of the reader's efforts in compre
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Broaching Silence; Chapter One Tactics and Strategies in Algerian Letters; Chapter Two Speaking of Silence; Chapter Three Manipulating Silence; Chapter Four Tactical Silence in Reading; Chapter Five Textual Silences and the Reader's Tactics; Conclusion The Threat of Silence; Bibliography; Index
