Assia Djebar: Out of AlgeriaFor more than fifty years, Assia Djebar, Silver Chair of French at New York University and winner of the Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, has used the tools of poetry, fiction, drama and film to vividly portray the world of Muslim women in all its complexity. In the process, she has become one of the most important figures in North African literature. In Assia Djebar, Jane Hiddleston traces Djebar's development as a writer against the backdrop of North Africa's tumultuous history. Whereas Djebar's early writings were largely an attempt to delineate clearly the experience of being a woman, an intellectual, and an Algerian embedded in that often violent history, she has in her more recent work evinced a growing sense that the influence of French culture on Algerian letters may make such a project impossible. The first book-length study of this significant writer, Assia Djebar will be of tremendous interest to anyone studying post-colonial literature, women's studies or Francophone culture. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Early Years | 21 |
War Memory and Postcoloniality | 53 |
Feminism and Womens Identity | 80 |
Violence Mourning and Singular Testimony | 120 |
Haunted Algeria | 158 |
Conclusion | 181 |
Notes | 186 |
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agency Aïcha Al-Tabari Algerian identity Algerian women Algiers Alouettes naïves alternative amnesia Arabic argues Assia Djebar attempt Berber Berkane Berkane’s Blanc de l’Algérie Casbah characters Chenoua colonial commemoration connotes critique cultural Dalila Derrida différance discourse Disparition echoes effacement emphasises Enfants du nouveau evokes experiences exploration fantasia Fatima Fatima Mernissi female feminine feminist Femme sans sépulture Femmes d'Alger fragments francophone French language Hajila haunted hauntology Ibid idioms interaction Islamic Islamist Isma Isma's l'Algérie L'Amour La Nouba Loin de Médine loss maquis memory Miriam Cooke mourning multiple Nadia narrative narrator narrator's nouveau monde novel occlusion Ombre sultane ongoing oppression Oran Paris past plural political position postcolonial present reflection relationship resistance resurgence rhetoric roles scene sense silence singular singular-plural social specific spectral spectre story Strasbourg structure struggle suggests temporal Thelja Tin Hinan tion tive traces trauma veil violence voice voix writing Zoulikha
References to this book
Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film Lindsey Moore No preview available - 2008 |