Leïla Aouchal
Leïla Aouchal | |
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| Born | 1936 Caen |
| Nationality | French |
| Notable works | Une Autre Vie |
Leïla Aouchal (born 1936) is a French-Algerian writer.
Life
She was born to a middle-class French family in Caen, France in 1936, and married an Algerian immigrant at the age of 19, moving with him to Algeria.[1] Upon the country's 1962 achievement of independence, Aouchal became an Algerian citizen.[1]
Despite being raised raised as a Roman Catholic, she gradually became became “Algerianized”; she began to read the Koran, converted to Islam and avoided Christian festivals in Algeria. [2]
Works
In 1970, Aouchal published Une Autre Vie, an autobiographical account of her experience of integrating into Algerian society amidst a civil war.[1][3] This would be her only work. [4]
Despite her brief writing career, she has been cited as being included in the first generation of female Algerian writers using the French language (along with such names as Fadhma Aït Mansour and Taos Amrouche). These individuals were born between 1882-1928, publishing their texts between 1960-1980. Common themes are the "self-discovery" of the authors, with texts set during the Algerian War and the evolution of the female condition during this time in the country. [5]
References
- ^ a b c Qader, Nasrin (2003). "Aouchal, Leïla". In Gikandi, Simon (ed.). Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge. p. 34. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ MacMaster, Neil (2011). "The Role of European Women and the Question of Mixed Couples in the Algerian Nationalist Movement in France, circa 1918 -1962". French Historical Studies. 34 (2): 357–386. doi:10.1215/00161071-1157376. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
- ^ Déjeux, Jean (1994). La littérature féminine de langue française au Maghreb (in French). KARTHALA Editions. p. 126.
- ^ Messaoud, Amar Naït (January 15, 2004). "De Caen à El Kseur, la métamorphose par l'amour - Une autre vie de Leïla Aouchal". La Dépêche de Kabylie (in French). Retrieved November 21, 2016.
- ^ Kassoul, Aïcha (1999). "Femmes en texte. Petite histoire de la littérature algérienne d'expression française 1857-1950". Insaniyatا (in French and English). 9: 67–72. doi:10.4000/insaniyat.8257. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
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