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Polygraphies : Francophone women writing Algeria / Alison Rice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rice, Alison, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Algerian literature (French)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Algerian literature (French).
- Feminism and literature--Algeria--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Women and literature--Algeria--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women authors, Algerian--Political and social views.
- Women authors, Algerian.
- Women authors, Arab--Algeria--Political and social views.
- Women authors, Arab.
- Women in literature.
- Algeria--In literature.
- Algeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Francophone women writing Algeria
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alison Rice engages their work from a range of disciplines, striving both to heighten our sensitivity to the plurality inherent in their texts and to move beyond a true/false dichotomy to a wealth of possible truths, all communicated in writing.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The witness stand: where the truth lies
- The autobiographical springboard. Le moi à plusieurs reprises: from confession to testimony in the autobiographical writings of Helene Cixous and Assia Djebar; La singularite de l'alterite: self-portraiture and the other in Maissa Bey
- Takeoff points. La terre maternelle: Algeria and the mother in the work of Marie Cardinal, Helene Cixous, and Assia Djebar; "La celebration d'une terre-mere": Albert Camus and Algeria according to Maissa Bey and Assia Djebar
- Embodiments. Écrire les maux: Helene Cixous and writing the body over time; Sexualites et sensualites: corporeal configurations in the work of Maissa Bey, Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem, and Leila Sebbar
- Reverberations. Ruptures intimes: sentimental splitting in the work of Assia Djebar; Lourds retours: coming back to Algeria in Malika Mokeddem's L'interdite; Fille de harki: relating to the father, country, and religion in the writing of Zahia Rahmani; Fabulation et imagination: women, nation, and identification in Maissa Bey's Cette fille-là
- Conclusion. Mass in A minor: putting Algeria on the map.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813932934
- 0813932939
- OCLC:
- 811829692
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