Title : Women's Dreams - A Childhood in the Harem - Fatima Mernissi - book
Summary :
I was born in 1940 in a harem in Fez, a 9th-century Moroccan city, located five thousand kilometers west of Mecca, and a thousand kilometers south of Madrid, one of the capitals of the ferocious Christians. " Thus begins Fatima Mernissi's story, a cascade of tales from a childhood where the marvelous and the everyday rub shoulders and become confused. Is Habiba, the illiterate girl who recites The Arabian Nights by heart , real or fictional? And Tamou, the Rif horsewoman who emerges from the North, decked out in weapons and jewels? And Charna, and Princess Boudour? Who knows? The writer herself is uncertain: "It's a story about borders; they move by definition!"
The world she describes to us, in the Fes of the 1940s, this sensual and playful childhood is more real than life. Catherine Simon, Le Monde.
- EAN: 9782253145134
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