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Many male feminist writers attempt to textually represent the experiences of stalwartly marginalized women and their unremitting struggles as well as chronic skirmishes to textually resist the intolerant and blinkered patriarchal ideologies. The recurrent themes in their novels revolve around the inequalities and disparities women face in daily life in Moroccan society. Correspondingly, these feminist novels tell the stories of culturally and socially silenced women who recurrently endeavor to ultimately free themselves from abusive husbands and oppressive patriarchal traditionalism that have relegated them to the domestic sphere and stripped them of their individuality. These feminist authors, through their literary works, create an extra-textual space for the representation of women outside of the socio-cultural norms of Moroccan life. In Morocco, most literary writers are men. It is widely known that male writers primarily produce gender-biased narratives, focusing on male characters. Recently, however the Moroccan literary scene has witnessed the emergence of male feminist writers who have been contesting a rightful place for women in the history and development of Moroccan society. Moroccan feminist writers ultimately seek to represent women’s situation in patriarchal and phallocentric Moroccan society; these literary works eventually reflect physical, social and psychological violence exercised on women in traditional Moroccan socio-cultural environments. Likewise, these writings constantly attempt to show how women are seen as morally degraded in the traditional thinking arena in Morocco. Both The Journey and Jomana can be seen as textual resistance narratives that austerely denounce women’s conditions in Moroccan society; they disparagingly demonstrate the conventionally outdated and deeply rooted gender stereotypes in Moroccan patriarchal society. Both Benouarrek and Zrizi textually portray the women’s struggle for their self-actualization and their resistances against male dominated patriarchal doxa that deprives women of their rights to be equal with men.
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