De stemmen van Tahara. De orkestratie van verschillende zelf-representaties in het levensverhaal van een Nederlandse moslimvrouw van Marokkaanse afkomst

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The Voices of Tahara. The Orchestration of Different Self-Representation in the Life Story of a Dutch Muslim Woman of Moroccan Background. This article presents the life story of Tahara, a well-known daughter of Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands. It explores how she presented herself in her life story, why the story has done so well in the Dutch media, and how the repeated telling of it has contributed to the construction of her identity. By analyzing the voices that represent her various I-positions in Dutch society, it is argued that several audiences are addressed simultaneously. It is demonstrated that the prophetic Muslim voice is dominant in the story. This voice allows Tahara to express her religious identification and to translate the Islamic discourse in which she frames it into a Dutch political discourse. It is particularly her "mission" to explain why she covers her head, in that this allows her to combine the religious and political voices in her story with the as yet hesitant female voice. It also helps her to create a sense of coherence in her multiple self-representations. 42 References. Adapted from the source document.