Assia Djebar : out of Algeria / Jane Hiddleston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiddleston, Jane.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 6.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015--Criticism and interpretation.

Djebar, Assia.

Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2006.

Summary:

For 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: Out of Algeria, 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 comprehensive study in English of Djebar's entire trajectory, Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria will be of tremendous interest to anyone studying postcolonial literature, women's studies or Francophone culture.

Contents:

1 The Early Years 21

2 War, Memory and Postcoloniality 53

3 Feminism and Women's Identity 80

4 Violence, Mourning and Singular Testimony 120

5 Haunted Algeria 158.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-211) and index.

ISBN:

1846310318

9781846310317

OCLC:

76907608