%0 Journal Article
%T The True Story About Me: Isabelle Eberhardt, the Legend of the Kahina and the Construction of Identity
%A Kirsty Bennett
%J United Academics Journal of Social Sciences
%D 2012
%I 
%X Isabelle Eberhardt¡¯s larger than life biography has exerted an extraordinary hold on the occidental feminist imagination and yet her writing, from fiction to journalism, remains in her shadow. In this article Eberhardt¡¯s identity politics are contextualised around the historiography of the Kahina legend in Algeria; and examined in relation to the textual construction of her Islamic identity; further complicated by a negotiation of the strategic political manoeuvres that Eberhardt undertakes to further her literary career. It is part of my wider research and construction of Eberhardt for the twenty- first century: moving away from the gender ambiguities to focus on her literary and Islamic identity.
%K Identities
%K Orientalism
%K Isabelle Eberhardt
%K The Kahina
%K Identity
%K Gender
%K Algeria
%U http://www.united-academics.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Article-Two-Kirsty-Bennett1.pdf