Out el-Kouloub
Out el-Kouloub (* 1892 in Cairo , † 1968 in Graz ) was a French-language Egyptian writer .
Life
Out el-Kouloub belonged to the Egyptian upper class, some of whom were of Turkish origin and who took in many slaves from Europe and the Caucasus in the course of their history . The cultural language of this layer was French around 1900. Out el-Kouloub was widowed at an early age and ran a literary salon in Cairo . Between 1937 and 1961 she published five novels. Your novel Ramsa has many autobiographical features. In it she tells the story of the emancipation of the daughter of a slave who was abducted from Serbia and who was given to an Egyptian from the upper class as a wife.
Works
- Harem (1937)
- Zanouba (1947)
- Le Conffret Hindou (1951)
- La Nuit de la Destinee (1954)
- Hefnaoui Le Magnifigue (1961)
- Ramsa - daughter of the harem
- Saida's lawsuit (1996)
literature
- Élodie Gaden: Out-el-Kouloub, romancière égyptienne, musulmane, de langue française: l'altérité culturelle au sein de l'histoire littéraire des femmes françaises. In: Fabula LHT , No. 7, 2010 (French)
- Julia Madœuf: Féminisme et orientalisme au miroir francophone d'Out-El-Kouloub (1892–1968). In: Égypte monde arabe (Ema) , No. 29, 1997, pp. 101–114 (French)
- Jean-Gérard Lapacherie: La régression tragique de la condition des femmes dans les pays arabes. On the Mediterranean Women - Femmes Mediterranéenes website of December 2, 2004 (French)
Web links
- Literature by and about Out el-Kouloub in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Out el-Kouloub in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by and about Out el-Kouloub in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | El-Kouloub, Out |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1968 |
| Place of death | Graz |