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    Year of the elephant : a Moroccan woman's journey toward independence, and other stories / by Leila Abouzeid ; translation from the Arabic by Barbara Parmenter ; introduction by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.

    By: Abū Zayd, Laylá, 1950-Contributor(s): Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, 1927-2008Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Modern Middle East literatures in translation series: Publisher: Austin, Tex. : Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, c1989Description: 103 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN: 029279603X; 9780292796034Uniform titles: ʻĀm al-fīl. English Subject(s): Middle East -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | Morocco -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | Morocco -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Women -- Morocco -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Arabic fiction -- Translations into EnglishDDC classification: Fic LOC classification: PJ7808.Z22 | A513 1989Online resources: Table of contents | Publisher description Also issued online.
    Contents:
    Year of the elephant (novella) -- A house in the woods -- A vacation -- The discontented -- Divorce / Silence -- Dinner in the black market -- The stranger -- Out of work.
    Summary: "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 participates in the struggle for Moroccan independence from France. This feminist novel is a literary statement in a modern realist style. Many novels by women of the Middle East that have been translated reflect Western views, values, and education. By contrast, Year of the Elephant is uniquely Moroccan and emerges from North African Islamic culture itself. Its subtle juxtaposition of past and present, of immediate thought and triggered memory, reflects the heroine's interior conflict between tradition and modern demands. The title refers to a famous battle described in the Koran."--Website of University of Texas Press (Oct. 31, 2010).
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    Includes glossary.

    Also issued online.

    Translated from Arabic.

    Year of the elephant (novella) -- Short stories. A house in the woods -- A vacation -- The discontented -- Divorce / translated by Salah-dine Hammoud -- Silence -- Dinner in the black market -- The stranger -- Out of work.

    "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 participates in the struggle for Moroccan independence from France. This feminist novel is a literary statement in a modern realist style. Many novels by women of the Middle East that have been translated reflect Western views, values, and education. By contrast, Year of the Elephant is uniquely Moroccan and emerges from North African Islamic culture itself. Its subtle juxtaposition of past and present, of immediate thought and triggered memory, reflects the heroine's interior conflict between tradition and modern demands. The title refers to a famous battle described in the Koran."--Website of University of Texas Press (Oct. 31, 2010).

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