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Assia Djebar
Djebar uses the deaths of three friends–a sociologist, a psychiatrist, and a playwright–as a springboard for a meditation on the history of modern Algeria and an insider’s view of the…
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Brutal and delicate, exposition of how warring worlds enact their battles upon women’s lives.
A brutal yet delicate exposition of how warring worlds enact their battles upon women’s lives.
Talking about the world conflicts, this work focuses on the experiences of women drawn into the politics of resistance. It recounts the interlocking lives of women in a rural Algerian…
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An Algerian living in exile and writing under a pseudonym plays the contradictions of her heroine’s existence against the bloody carnage of Carthage, a great civilization to which the Berbers…
Assia Djebar’s latest novel explores the contradictions of being a modern, educated Algerian woman trying to survive in a man’s society. Set against the backdrop of bloody Carthage, the novel…
Jane Hiddleston (Exeter College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom))
For more than fifty years, Assia Djebar, former Silver Chair of French at New York University and winner of the Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, used the tools…
Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Assia Djebar in the college classroom, including considerations of biography, violence, translation, race, gender, postcolonial feminism, French and francophone studies, Islamic historiography…
This volume presents valuable teaching resources, giving French- and English-language editions of Djebar’s writing and including biographical information about Djebar. Essays cover translation studies, Islamic feminism, colonial and postcolonial contexts…
Michael O'Riley
Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar’s New Novels treats one of the central problems within the current geo-political conflict between Islam and the West: how the memory of imperialism fuels…
Kacedali-A,Kacedali-A
L’ criture n'est jamais un acte anodin en particulier pour une femme. Elle est souvent entreprise de d voilement. Aussi, le d sir de se dire n'est-il pas souvent source…
Claudia Nieser
Die Romane der algerischen Schriftstellerin Assia Djebar - im Jahr 2000 mit dem Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet - behandeln Themen von hochster Aktualitat: den Islam, seine pragende Kraft auf…
This collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface depicts the plight of urban Algerian women who have thrown off the shackles of colonialism only to…
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Jennifer Murray,Peter Collier
The globalisation of culture and the shifting nature of national identities have propelled the stakes of memory and identity to the forefront of current intellectual debates. In recent years, the…
Najat Rahman
Literary Disinheritance examines post-nationalist articulations of home in the writing of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and the Algerian writer Assia Djebar, providing a rare comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of…
Brigitte Weltman-Aron (University of Florida)
Shows how Cixous and Djebar consistently reclaim for ethical and political purposes the demarcations and dislocations emphasized in their fictions
Djebar’s work is located at the crossroads where languages meet - chieving an embodied, sentimental, and linguistic entre-deux-langues. Her novels are literature in motion, an expression of writing-between and nomadism…
Diana Haussmann
Die vorliegende Studie beschaftigt sich mit dem literarischen Werk der algerischen Autorin Assia Djebar (*1936). Ihr Hauptaugenmerk richtet sich auf den 1995 erschienenen Roman Vaste est la prison, den die…
Elke Richter
Was heisst erzahlen von sich selbst im Spannungsfeld verschiedener Kulturen, zwischen Europa und dem Maghreb? Dieser Frage geht diese Studie anhand des Algerischen Quartetts, dem autobiographischen Werk von Assia Djebar…
Rafika Merini
One of the most widely acknowledged attributes of Francophone literature in general is that it brings wideranging socio-political issues to bear on literary theory, worldviews, and historical events. This study…
Translated for the first time in English, this collection of short fiction details the plight of urban Algerian women and raises far-reaching issues. The stories criticise the post-colonial socialist regime…
With global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the different constituencies of the world’s French-speaking regions needs to be reexamined and debated. This book questions ingrained assumptions, pointing out…
