Badia Hadj Nasser

Badia Hadj Nasser (born May 8, 1938 in Tangier ) is a Moroccan writer and psychoanalyst .

She lives alternately in Paris and Tangier. She is the author of the 1985 novel “Le voile mis à nu” (The Thrown Veil). This book describes the Moroccan middle class in Tangier and the life of an emancipating young woman.

In the following years she devoted herself to psychoanalysis both in clinical application and at the research level. She worked primarily on the work on “Les mille et une nuits” (A Thousand and One Nights), published in “Corps écrit, l'Arabie heureuse” , PUF, 1989. She also wrote a text entitled “La fascination de la virginité et sa résonance dans le corps des femmes immigrées ”(The fascination of virginity and its resonance in the group of immigrant women) in “ Espace-Temps et Traces de 'exil ” , Grenoble, La Pensée Sauvage, 1991. In parallel, she wrote, among others numerous short stories.

Works

• Le voile mis à nu . Novel. Éditions de l'Arcantère, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-86829-008-6 .
• Les hedonistes . Collection of short stories. Editions de la Guette, 2009.

literature

• Najib Redouane: Errance sexual et contestation dans Le Voile Mis a Nu de Badia Hadj Nasser . In: International Journal of Francophone Studies , Vol. 2, No. 3, 1999, ISSN  1368-2679 , pp. 132-139.