Fadhma Aït Mansour
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Fadhma Aït Mansour | |
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| Born | c. 1882 Tizi Hibel, Algeria |
| Died | 9 July 1967 Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France |
| Occupation | poet and folksinger |
| Subject | autobiography |
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Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche (c. 1882 in Tizi Hibel, Algeria – July 9, 1967 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France) was a poet and folksinger.
Biography
She was born in 1882 in a
Roman Catholicism. She met another Kabyle Catholic convert, Antoine-Belkacem Amrouche, whom she married in 1898 or 1899.[1] They had eight children together, including writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche,[1] but only two of the children would remain living by the time of her death. The family first moved to Tunis
, where Taos was born, and then France.
During her lifetime, she made a considerable impact on the works of Jean and Taos. The folk songs she sang to her family were compiled and translated to
music album in Kabyle
bearing the same title as Jean's folk song collection.
Her autobiography Histoire de ma vie was published posthumously in 1968. This book discusses mainly about the life she lived as a woman living in two different worlds: between the traditional Kabyle life and language and the colonial power France, its language, and particularly its predominant religion, Christianity.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-7876-4074-3. Archived from the originalon 2016-04-09.
Further reading
- Fadhma Aith Mansour Amrouche The Story of My Life, Translated, with a new Introduction, by Caroline Stone. (Hardinge Simpole, 2009). [1].
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