Touria Oulehri Explained

Touria Oulehri
Birth Place:Assoul, Morocco

Touria Oulehri (born 1962) is a Moroccan novelist and academic. Her novels focus on the experiences and challenges faced by Moroccan women.

Life and career

Oulehri was born in the village of Assoul, Morocco.[1] She attended secondary school in Meknès, followed by higher education in Fez and France.[1] She holds a degree in public law and a doctorate in French literature.[2]

She has worked as a teacher at the École Normale Supérieure in Meknès,[3] and as an academic of French literature.[2] She has published articles on the subject of literary criticism and authors of the 16th century.[2] She is one of a group of Francophone Moroccan women writers who began writing in the 1980s and 1990s, despite Moroccan literature having traditionally been a masculine field, and whose work is characterised by themes of feminism and socio-political concerns.[4] [5]

Oulehri's first novel, La répudiée was published in 2001.[3] It is about an upper-class and cultured Moroccan woman unable to have children; her husband first encourages her to agree to a polygamous marriage and then abandons her when she refuses consent.[4] [6] Oulehri draws comparisons between the destruction of the main character's life and the 1960 Agadir earthquake, yet the events also provide her with an opportunity to rebuild a better life.[4] [7] The novel caused some controversy in Morocco for its depiction of a woman who seeks fulfilment from life without motherhood or a male partner.[8]

Feminist themes and women's experiences have continued to be features of her later novels;[9] for example, in Les Conspirateurs sont parmi nous (2006), the young main character has received no education about her body and is unsettled by menstruation as a result.[10] In 2019 her novel Aime-moi et je te tue was presented at the Casablanca International Book Fair.[1]

In a 2007 interview, Oulehri was asked for whom she and other Moroccan authors write, given low levels of literacy in the country. She responded, "French: nous écrivons pour nous-mêmes et personne d'autre" (we write for ourselves and no one else).[11]

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-12-30. Touria Oulehri, une romancière "habitée" par la condition de la femme !. 2021-04-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20210416125631/https://www.africalifestyles.com/touria-oulehri-une-romanciere-habitee-par-la-condition-de-la-femme/. 16 April 2021. Africa Lifestyles. fr-FR.
  2. Web site: Journée Internationale de la femme . Maghress . 22 March 2024 . fr . 7 March 2008.
  3. Web site: Touria Oulehri. La répudiée. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060923194335/http://www.ub.edu/cdona/lletra_de_dona/fitxautora/oulehri.htm. 23 September 2006 . es . Center Dona i Literatura . Universitat de Barcelona . Oliveras . Carlota.
  4. Book: Khannous . Touria . Bratt . Kirstin Ruth . Elbousty . Youness M. . Stewart . Devin . Vitality And Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition . 2014 . Amsterdam University Press . 9789087282134 . 1st . 23 March 2024 . Chapter 4. Writing in the Feminine: The Emerging Voices of Francophone Moroccan Women Writers.
  5. Orlando . Valérie K. . Being-in-the-world: the Afropolitan Moroccan author's worldview in the new millennium . Journal of African Cultural Studies . September 2013 . 25 . 3 . 275–291 . 42005328 . 23 March 2024.
  6. Belarbi . Mokhtar . Métamorphoses du corps féminin dans la littérature marocaine et japonaise . Sens Public . 3 March 2011 . 22 March 2024 . fr.
  7. Zoulagh . Latifa . Touria Oulehri: Du corps morcelé au corps reconstruit . Women in French Studies . 2019 . 27 . 62–74 . 10.1353/wfs.2019.0020 . 23 March 2024 . fr.
  8. Book: Segarra . Marta . Nouvelles romancières francophones du Maghreb . 2010 . Karthala Editions . 9782811103224 . 98–100 . 23 March 2024 . fr.
  9. Web site: Ces artistes marocaines qui brillent par leurs talents . Libération . 23 March 2024 . fr . 7 March 2020.
  10. El Kourri . Rachid . Le roman féminin au Maroc : un itinéraire de combattantes . Faits de Langue et société . 2018 . 3–4 . 140 . 23 March 2024 . fr.
  11. Orlando . Valérie K. . La Littérature-monde in the 'New Morocco': literary humanism for a global age. . International Journal of Francophone Studies . 2009 . 12 . 2/3 . 368 . 23 March 2024.
  12. Book: Touaf. Larbi. The World as a Global Agora: Critical Perspectives on Public Space. 88–102 . Boutkhil. Soumia. 2009-03-26. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-0728-9. en.

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