Literary representation of the Maghrebi and West Indian female body

The female body carries the mystery of the universe, hard enigmas, strong metaphors, and is a deeply moving subject, both artistically and politically. The veiled-tortured body, the enslaved-submissive body, the sensual-erotic body, the free-exiled body; under various guises, writing about the female body has become a veritable celebration of femininity, and therefore never ceases to arouse the interest of literary research. This comparative literary research sheds light on how the female novelistic body has been represented in two French-speaking cultures: the Caribbean and the Maghreb, by analyzing the works Chair Piment by Gisèle Pineau, Moi, Tituba sorcière... by Maryse Condé and L'Amande by Nedjma.

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Charitha Liyanage is a lecturer in French at the University of Sri Jayawardenepura & at the Alliance française de Kotte in Colombo. She holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Aix-Marseille and a BA in French from the University of Kelaniya with First class honours.