FEMALE SELF-REALIZATION AND IDENTITY BECOMING IN ASSIA DJEBAR’S FANTASIA

Abstract

his dissertation is concerned with the Feminist enunciation in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (1985) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) produced in the postcolonial era. It is an inquiry into the two writers’ common concern for the construction of a new vision of female subjectivity that challenges women’s stereotypical representation in male-written patriarchal and Western colonial narratives. Following from this, this research sheds light on the two African women writers’ introduction of a fresh and dynamic vision of female identity that goes at odds with the passive and submissive female characters of male-written accounts