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My Life Story: The Autobiography of a Berber Woman, Edited by Dorothy Blair
The autobiography of a berber women
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224 pages
Published
June 1st 1989
by Rutgers University Press
(first published April 1989)
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A fascinating, if rather grim, introduction to a part of the world and a culture with which I was utterly unfamiliar. Colonialism is evil--and yet
Fadhma A.M. Amrouche
would likely not have survived the "shame" of her illegitimate birth without her mother's clever decision to appeal to the French colonial authorities when threatened by her late husband's family. Nor would she have received the education that enabled her, eventually, to commit her story to writing, without her mother's decision t
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The book itself is monotonous, showing very little emotion apart from annoyance with people's stupidity. You can tell that Fadhma had very little love as a kid, and that she was in many ways unable to express hers fully. But the book is a good introduction to what it was like to be a Berber, illigitimate, educated and poor - endless pregnancies, endless deaths, endless family bickerings - but also a strength and a will to survive and become better.
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