La emancipación de mujeres musulmanes en Francia

Autores/as

  • Anna Kobylski James Madison University (USA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/rdh.23.2014.14958

Palabras clave:

Maghreb, Women, France, Laïcité, Emancipation, Mujer, Francia, Laicismo, Emancipación

Resumen

Resumen: La emancipación para mujeres musulmanas en Francia es una lucha continua expresada y examinada a través de la literatura y el cine franceses contemporáneos. En las obras Inch´Allah Dimanch (Inch´Allah domingo) y Mémoires d´inmigrés: l´heritage maghrébin (Recuerdos de inmigrantes: la herencia musulmana), la cineasta franco-argelina Yamina Benguigui ilustra las dificultades sociales, económicas y religiosas vividas por los inmigrantes del Maghreb a Francia tras la ley de reagrupamiento familiar de 1974. Estas dificultades siguen hoy en día y han contribuido a una crisis de identidad que impide que las mujeres musulmanas logren su emancipación. Leïla Djitli aborda esta idea de crisis de identidad en cuanto a la experiencia de la inmigrante musulmana en Francia en su obra Lettre à ma fille qui veut porter le voile (Carta a mi hija que quiere llevar el velo). A través de su estilo documental, Djitli investiga los sentimientos del exilio que contribuyen a esta crisis de identidad. Este trabajo analizará la historia reciente de los inmigrantes musulmanes en Francia a partir de la Guerra de Independencia de Argelia hasta hoy día a través de estas obras y como éstas pertenecen al papel de la identidad en emancipación. El análisis considera tanto las perspectivas feministas occidentales y musulmanas como la postura francesa en cuanto al laicismo y su papel en el ámbito público francés.

Abstract: Emancipation for Muslim women in France is an ongoing struggle expressed and examined through contemporary French and Francophone literature and film. In Inch´Allah Dimanche (God-Willing on Sunday) and Mémoires d´immigrés: l´héritage maghrébin (Immigrant Memories: Maghrebin Heritage), French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui illustrates the social, economic, and religious difficulties experienced by immigrants of the Maghreb to France following France´s family regroupment law of 1974. These difficulties continue today and have contributed to an identity crisis that is preventing Muslim women from achieving emancipation. Leïla Djitli addresses the notion of identity crisis as it pertains to the experience of the Muslim immigrant woman in France Lettre à ma fille qui veut porter le voile (A Letter to my Daughter Who Wants to Wear the Veil). Through her documentary-like approach, Djitli examines the feelings of exile that contribute to identity crisis. This paper will analyze Frances recent Muslim immigrant history from the Algerian War to present day through these works as it pertains to the role of identity in emancipation. The analysis will consider Western feminist and Islamic feminist perspectives as well as the French position on secularism and its role in the French public sphere.

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Biografía del autor/a

Anna Kobylski, James Madison University (USA)

Anna Kobylski will be a 2014 graduate of James Madison University with a Bachelor of Arts in French and a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance. She is currently representing James Madison University as an exchange student in France at the University of Versailles St-Quenin-En-Yvelines. In October 2013, Ms. Kobylski presented a paper entitled “La Laïcité: Cultural Misunderstandings Between French and American Secularisms” at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Undergraduate Scholarship Conference at Sweet Briar College. In March 2013, Ms. Kobylski presented a paper entitled “French Imperialist Culture in ‘Inch’allah Sunday’ and its Implications for Muslim Women in France Today” at a special session on “The Cinematic Emancipation of the Muslim Immigrant Woman in France: Yamina Benguigui’s 2001 film, ‘Inch’Allah Sunday,” at the James Madison University Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. In May 2014, her Senior Honors Thesis entitled “Music as a Force for Social Change: El Sistema in the USA” will be published through the James Madison University Honors Program.

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Kobylski, A. (2015). La emancipación de mujeres musulmanes en Francia. Revista De Humanidades, (23), 157–166. https://doi.org/10.5944/rdh.23.2014.14958