Assia Djebar
Out of Algeria
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
192 pages
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6 x 9
For more than fifty years, Assia Djebar has used the tools of poetry, fiction, drama, and film to vividly portray the complex world of Muslim women. 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. Djebar’s early writings were largely an attempt to delineate the experience of being a woman, an intellectual, and an Algerian, but her more recent work evinces 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 indispensable writer, Assia Djebar will interest scholars of postcolonial literature, women’s studies, or francophone culture.
Modern Language Review
“An impressive overview of the literary output of one of Algeria’s most prolific writers. . . . This study is the first of its kind to devote itself entirely to the changing trajectory of Djebar’s fiction.”
Ana de Medeiros, University of Kent
"An excellent overview of Djebar’s work. [It] will appeal greatly to academics and research students in the UK and North America as well as the rest of Europe."—Ana de Medeiros, University of Kent
Clio
"A remarkable, comprehensive study of the celebrated francophone woman writer's literary trajectory."—Clio
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Early Years
2. War, Memory and Postcoloniality
3. Feminism and Women's Identity
4. Violence, Mourning and Singular Testimony
5. Haunted Algeria
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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