TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abū Zayd,Laylá
AU  - Fernea,Elizabeth Warnock
TI  - Year of the elephant: a Moroccan woman's journey toward independence, and other stories 
T2  - Modern Middle East literature in translation series
SN  - 029279603X
AV  - PJ7808.Z22 A513 1989
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Austin, Tex.
PB  - Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
KW  - Women
KW  - Morocco
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Arabic fiction
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes glossary; 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; Also issued online
N2  - "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)
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/texas051/89062509.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/texas041/89062509.html
ER  -