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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454145303321

Autore

Hiddleston Jane

Titolo

Assia Djebar [[electronic resource] ] : Out of Algeria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4298-2701-7

1-78694-534-7

1-84631-260-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 6 ; ; v.v. 6

Disciplina

843.914

Soggetti

Languages & Literatures

Romance Literatures

French Literature

Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Algeria In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 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 o