Touria Oulehri

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Touria Oulehri
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Assoul, Morocco
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • academic

Touria Oulehri (born 1962) is a Moroccan novelist and academic. Her novels focus on the experiences and challenges faced by Moroccan women.

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Life and career

Oulehri was born in the village of Assoul, Morocco. [1] She attended secondary school in Meknès, followed by higher education in Fez and France. [1] She holds a degree in public law and a doctorate in French literature. [2]

She has worked as a teacher at the École Normale Supérieure in Meknès, [3] and as an academic of French literature. [2] She has published articles on the subject of literary criticism and authors of the 16th century. [2] She is one of a group of Francophone Moroccan women writers who began writing in the 1980s and 1990s, despite Moroccan literature having traditionally been a masculine field, and whose work is characterised by themes of feminism and socio-political concerns. [4] [5]

Oulehri's first novel, La répudiée was published in 2001. [3] It is about an upper-class and cultured Moroccan woman unable to have children; her husband first encourages her to agree to a polygamous marriage and then abandons her when she refuses consent. [4] [6] Oulehri draws comparisons between the destruction of the main character's life and the 1960 Agadir earthquake, yet the events also provide her with an opportunity to rebuild a better life. [4] [7] The novel caused some controversy in Morocco for its depiction of a woman who seeks fulfilment from life without motherhood or a male partner. [8]

Feminist themes and women's experiences have continued to be features of her later novels; [9] for example, in Les Conspirateurs sont parmi nous (2006), the young main character has received no education about her body and is unsettled by menstruation as a result. [10] In 2019 her novel Aime-moi et je te tue was presented at the Casablanca International Book Fair. [1]

In a 2007 interview, Oulehri was asked for whom she and other Moroccan authors write, given low levels of literacy in the country. She responded, "nous écrivons pour nous-mêmes et personne d'autre" (we write for ourselves and no one else). [11]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Journée Internationale de la femme". Maghress (in French). 7 March 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  3. 1 2 Oliveras, Carlota. "Touria Oulehri. La répudiée". Center Dona i Literatura (in Spanish). Universitat de Barcelona. Archived from the original on 23 September 2006.
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  7. ↑ Zoulagh, Latifa (2019). "Touria Oulehri: Du corps morcelé au corps reconstruit". Women in French Studies (in French). 27: 62–74. doi:10.1353/wfs.2019.0020 . Retrieved 23 March 2024.
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