Motherhood in literature written by female authors in Morocco Authors Zohra Mezgueldi Université Hassan II d'Aïn Chock, Casablanca Keywords: maternity, social and cultural representations, maternal pattern, symbolical space, creation Abstract Firstly, the Literature written by female authors in Morocco puts forward the social and cultural representations of maternity. Women’s writing describes maternity as a source for women’s empowerment if they want to exist in the society and in the family. Secondly, it can be said that in this literature, the main idea is that the mother represents a negative pattern for women’s emancipation. Finally, this analysis pays considerable attention to the relation between maternity and writing. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Français) Issue No. 14 (2008): Maternitat a l'islam Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
