UID:
almafu_9959229911302883
Format:
1 online resource (215 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4298-2701-7
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1-78694-534-7
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1-84631-260-4
Series Statement:
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 6
Content:
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, Jane Hiddleston traces Djebars development as a writer against the backdrop of North Africas tumultuous history. Whereas Djebars 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, womens studies or Francophone culture.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016).
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Half-Title; Title; Copyright; 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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84631-685-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84631-031-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3828/9781846310317
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