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Bezig met laden... The Last One: A Novel (origineel 2020; editie 2021)door Fatima Daas (Auteur), Lara Vergnaud (Vertaler)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A lightning fast read, this is an impressionistic piece of autofiction by a young Frenchwoman from an Algerian family background struggling to reconcile her identities as a Muslim and a lesbian. A series of short scenes in no chronological order from childhood to young adulthood all beginning the same way with an invocation of identity - “I am Fatima Daas. I am a…” - give the work something of the structure of a formal prayer or recitation of a creed, and like an institutional religious creed it can seem to skip along hitting the main points of the thing without diving very deep into introspection or exegesis. Of course those can be found elsewhere in religious texts, and I hope that Fatima Daas (the author) will dive deeper in future texts herself. I don’t feel I got to know Fatima Daas (the character) all that well here, more that I gained an understanding that yes, she exists, she is a lesbian Muslim and she exists, despite the attempted erasure of that identity by her family, by her religion, and perhaps by her secular lovers as well. ( ) Me llamo Fatima Daas. Soy la "mazozia", la menor, la hija pequeña. Mi padre esperaba que yo fuera un chico. Soy francesa, de origen argelino. Musulmana practicante. Una chica de Clichy que pasa más de tres horas diarias en el transporte público. Una turista. Una chica de barrio que observa los comportamientos parisinos. Soy una mentirosa, una pecadora. De adolescente, soy una alumna inestable. De adulta, soy una superinadaptada. Escribo historias para evitar vivir la mía. He estado cuatro años de terapia. Es mi relación más larga. El amor era tabú en casa, las manifestaciones de ternura, la sexualidad tambien. Me creo partidaria del poliamor. Cuando Nina apareció en mi vida, no sabía en absoluto que necesitaba ni lo que me faltaba. Me llamo Fatima Daas. Mi nombre es el de un personaje simbólico del islam. Un nombre que no se puede ensuciar. En mi casa, ensuciar es deshonrar. No se si soy digna de mi nombre. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity-French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian. The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo, and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on public transportation to and from the city, where she feels like a tourist observing Parisian manners. She goes from unstable student to maladjusted adult, doing four years of therapy-her longest relationship. But as she gains distance from her family and comes into her own, she grapples more directly with her attraction to women and how it fits with her religion, which she continues to practice. When Nina comes into her life, she doesn't know exactly what she needs but feels that something crucial has been missing. This extraordinary first novel, anchored and buoyed by the refrain "My name is Fatima," is a vital portrait of a young woman finding herself in a modern world full of contradictions. Daas's journey to living her sexuality in spite of expectations about who she should be offers a powerful perspective on the queer experience"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)843.92Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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