Prof. dr. Ieme van der Poel is Professor of French Literature, Emerita, at the University of Amsterdam.

'Original and comprehensive, this book is at the forefront of cutting-edge research on diaspora and multiculturalism studies.' Professor Cristián H. Ricci, University of California Merced

• INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: Writing absence CHAPTER II: The European-Maghrebi cultural exchange CHAPTER III: Beyond Orientalism: Self-exoticization and irony CHAPTER IV: Feminism and/or autobiography CHAPTER V: Female subalternity and the experience of migration CHAPTER VI: Pioneers or pariahs? CHAPTER VII: A literature of exile CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Prof. dr. Ieme van der Poel is Professor of French Literature, Emerita, at the University of Amsterdam.

'Original and comprehensive, this book is at the forefront of cutting-edge research on diaspora and multiculturalism studies.' Professor Cristián H. Ricci, University of California Merced

• INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: Writing absence CHAPTER II: The European-Maghrebi cultural exchange CHAPTER III: Beyond Orientalism: Self-exoticization and irony CHAPTER IV: Feminism and/or autobiography CHAPTER V: Female subalternity and the experience of migration CHAPTER VI: Pioneers or pariahs? CHAPTER VII: A literature of exile CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Prof. dr. Ieme van der Poel is Professor of French Literature, Emerita, at the University of Amsterdam.

'Original and comprehensive, this book is at the forefront of cutting-edge research on diaspora and multiculturalism studies.' Professor Cristián H. Ricci, University of California Merced

• INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: Writing absence CHAPTER II: The European-Maghrebi cultural exchange CHAPTER III: Beyond Orientalism: Self-exoticization and irony CHAPTER IV: Feminism and/or autobiography CHAPTER V: Female subalternity and the experience of migration CHAPTER VI: Pioneers or pariahs? CHAPTER VII: A literature of exile CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY