The Quest for Identity in French Women Borderland Literature = Fransız Kadın “Sınır” Edebiyatında Kimlik Arayışı

Çelebi, Lucia Barbara (Dell’Abate)

The Quest for Identity in French Women Borderland Literature = Fransız Kadın “Sınır” Edebiyatında Kimlik Arayışı

dc.authorid	158208	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Çelebi, Lucia Barbara (Dell’Abate)
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-09T18:29:41Z
dc.date.available	2020-02-09T18:29:41Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.department	İstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The aim of this article, rooted within both the post-colonial and the feminist discourse, is to connect Western women’s search for new forms of identities to the experiences and perspectives of immigrant/migrant women and with a particular focus in on a specific group of writers: Algerian women writers living in France. These women, living between two worlds, in a cultural and national borderland have employed different strategies of resistance; sometimes has been victims of ambivalence conflicts or have sometimes enjoyed the multiple identities. In my interpretation borderland is a metaphor for (un)belonging, of being a nomad within cultures in perpetual exile from a homeland that is not anymore felt as one’s own, but living in the boundaries, in the “interstices of culture”, as affirmed by Homi K. Bhabha. This borderland begins at the frontier of both national and sexual identities and develops through on-going negotiations and manifold strategies of resistance. Far from searching for a homogeneous migrant discourse or for a generalized answer to the search for identity, this paper intends to show the response of single individualities to issues of subordination, strangeness, exile, loneliness. Despite individual differences, one element connects all the women analyzed here: their need to write, to tell their stories, to construct or re-construct their past and to affirm, through their novels, their existence. Storytelling becomes such a window that allows us to enter in their worlds and that moreover offers, through fresh eyes, a new perspective on the society in which we live.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Kadın/Woman 2000, 2014; 15 (2): 95-113	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.33831/jws.v15i2
dc.identifier.issn	1302-9916
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.33831/jws.v15i2
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi	en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Makale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı	en_US
dc.subject	Post-colonialism	en_US
dc.subject	Feminism	en_US
dc.subject	Borderland literature	en_US
dc.subject	Migrant minority literature	en_US
dc.subject	Border theory	en_US
dc.subject	Border studies	en_US
dc.title	The Quest for Identity in French Women Borderland Literature = Fransız Kadın “Sınır” Edebiyatında Kimlik Arayışı	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US