My Life Story: The Autobiography of a Berber Woman
written by Fadhma A. M. Amrouche, 1882-1967 (London, England: Women's Press, 1988, originally published 1968), 230 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Fadhma Amrouche was the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished, illiterate Berber peasant woman. Born a Muslim, she was converted to Christianity by Catholic missionaries, produced one of the first autobiographies ever written by an Algerian woman, became a naturalized French citizen, and raised two children who became well-known French literati—Taos Marie-Louise Amrouche, a poet and novelist, and Jean Amrouche, also a poet. The remarkable life odyssey of Fadhma Amrouche mirrors many of the realities—as well as contradictions—of colonialism as lived, particularly for women.
- Field of Interest
- Women and Social Movements
- Author
- Fadhma A. M. Amrouche, 1882-1967
- Collection
- Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
- Copyright Message
- Copyright @ 1988 by the Women's Press
- Content Type
- Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 1968
- Page Count
- 230
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Publisher
- Women's Press
- Place Published / Released
- London, England
- Subject
- Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Education, Mujer y Educación, Mulher e Educação, Argelia, Argélia, Algeria, Women and Education, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Empire and Education, Empire and Family Life, Berbers, Algerians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
- Topic
- Empire and Education, Empire and Family Life
- Translator
- Dorothy S. Blair, fl. 1993
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Mujer y Educación, Mulher e Educação, Argelia, Argélia