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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

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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