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    The Intersection of Race, Class and Gender in Zora Neale Hurston’s The Gilded Six Bits (1933) and Malika Mokeddem’s L’interdite (1993).
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2025) Mellah Hanane; Messaoui Lyticia
    This research examines the intersection of race, class and gender in Zora Neale Hurston‟s The Gilded Six Bits (1933) and Malika Mokeddem‟s L‟interdite (1993). It aims at showing the way how female figures are discriminated in both novels in terms of race and gender. This contributed to their relegation to the lower class of their societies and to present the different forms of oppression that women encounter in both Afro-American and Algerian societies . To achieve our purpose, we have relied on the theory of Kimberly Crenshaw‟s „‟Demergenalizing the Intersetion of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (1989)‟‟.The first chapter examines the intersection of gender and class in both novels and demonstrates how these overlapping identities interact together to affect women‟s lives in the American and African societies. In the second chapter, we have analyzed the intersection of race and class in Hurston‟s and Mokeddem‟s works to show how ethnic distinctions determine economic and cultural expectations, reinforcing systems of oppression and segregation towards women in the African and Afro-American societies. The analysis leads to the findings that the Afro-American author Zora Neale Hurston and the Algerian francophone author Malika Mokeddem, despite their different racial and societal backgrounds, similarly portrayed the experiences of women in their societies, revealing how the latter have resisted against different kinds of oppression, manifested in racism, class distinction and marginalization.