“Baya’s woman is endowed with a giant eye which, with agape, greedily desires flowers, fruits, the sounds of lutes and guitars, complicit birds, fish in a jar, a child on the head or shoulders of a woman in conversation with a palm tree Everything is made flush, flat, rich, moments of “gathering” everything, except man. For the author, it is a metaphor for the liberation of both the Western and Islamic view of women, North African women in particular: Another reading of Baya’s work emphasizes its feminist character: Assia Djebar’s essay entitled « Baya, le regard fleur » sets that the compositions and the piercing eyes of Baya’s female characters in particular, are revealing.
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