The Notion of Space in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père (2007)
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2014
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Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou
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This dissertation is concerned with the notion of space in two literary works A Room of One’s
Own (1929) by the English modernist writer Virginia Woolf and Nulle part dans la maison de
mon père (2007) by the postcolonial Algerian writer Assia Djebar. This comparative study of
the two authors is done not in terms of characters and plot, but the focus is on the notion of
space and how the two writers function in these spaces. The two works unite the ideas of
space, both public and private. While both writers gain access to public space, they still feel
confinement and exclusion from their own societies. Consequently, the mental space is
exteriorized as a literary text, not only because they write their stories as women but also
because the space of the written text becomes the site of women’s definition and affirmation
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Comparative Literature