In this volume, Lebbady has compiled and translated seven Andalusi women's tales from the north of Morocco, and analyzes them from a postcolonial theoretical perspective, finding in the women far more wit and agency than western stereotypes would suggest.

Autorentext
HASNA LEBBADY is Professor and Head of the Department of English at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

Inhalt
Introduction: Re-membering: From Memory to History 'Aisha the Carpenter's Daughter': Performative Language versus Visual Performance 'Ali and a Spinner Too?': A Tale of Embodied Knowledge 'Lawza el Bhia': Representing the Self as Strategic Use of Essentialism 'Who'll Buy a Word?': An Andalusi version of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' 'Aisha Jarma': Narrative Generations: From the Pre-Colonial Tale to Post-Colonial Film 'The Female Camel': A Tragic Encounter of the Female Social Imaginary with the Male Symbolic Order 'Woman as the Source of Good': A Tale of the Artist as a Young Woman