Fantasia An Algerian Cavalcade

Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008904893

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Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar Pdf

In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence - both their own and Algeria's.

Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029248294

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Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar Pdf

Assia Djebar is also the author of several novels and a play. Her novel Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade won the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize and she has written and directed two feature-length films: La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, which won first prize at the Venice Festival, and La zerda et les chants de l'oubli. Djebar is director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University. Marjolijn de Jager has published numerous translations of literary works. Clarisse Zimra is Associate Professor of English in Modern Literary Theory and Criticism and Comparative Literature at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781583229699

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The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar Pdf

What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence? Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebar’s The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry reaches into the void where normal and impossible realities coexist. All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996—a time when, by official accounts, some two hundred thousand Algerians were killed in Islamist assassinations and government army reprisals. Each story grew from a real conversation on the streets of Paris between the author and fellow Algerians about what was happening in their native land. Contemporary events are joined on the page by classical themes in Arab literature, whether in the form of Berber texts sung by the women of the Mzab or the tales from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry beautifully explores the conflicting realities of the role of women in the Arab world. With renowned and unparalleled skill, Assia Djebar gives voice to her longing for a world she has put behind her.

Author : Ranjana Khanna
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804752613

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Algeria Cuts by Ranjana Khanna Pdf

Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and theoretical and philosophical texts concerning the relationship between France and Algeria. Khanna investigates gendered representation, identification, and justice, and in the process, calls into question the ways in which conventional disciplinary frameworks foreclose certain avenues of reflection while foregrounding others. Algeria Cuts seeks to understand Algeria and Algerian women as a philosophical site that facilitates an understanding of justice and the pursuit of feminism.

Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Algeria
ISBN : UOM:39015001692915

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The Mischief by Assia Djebar Pdf

Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609803056

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So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar Pdf

So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen revolution in a now post-colonial country, and as an Algerian living in exile. In this new novel, Djebar brilliantly plays these contradictions against the bloody history of Carthage, a great civilization the Berbers were once compared to, and makes it both a tribute to the loss of Berber culture and a meeting-point of culture and language. As the story of one woman's experience in Algeria, it is a private tale, but one embedded in a vast history. A radically singular voice in the world of literature, Assia Djebar's work ultimately reaches beyond the particulars of Algeria to embrace, in stark yet sensuous language, the universal themes of violence, intimacy, ostracism, victimization, and exile.

Author : Fazia Aïtel
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813048956

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We Are Imazighen by Fazia Aïtel Pdf

To the world they are known as Berbers, but they prefer to call themselves Imazighen, or “free people.” The claim to this unique cultural identity has been felt most acutely in Algeria in the Kabylia region, where an Amazigh consciousness gradually emerged after WWII. This is a valuable model for other Amazigh movements in North Africa, where the existence of an Amazigh language and culture is denied or dismissed in countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. By tracing the cultural production of the Kabyle people—their songs, oral traditions, and literature—from the early 1930s to the end of the twentieth century, Fazia Aïtel shows how they have defined their own culture over time, both within Algeria and in its diaspora. She analyzes the role of Amazigh identity in the works of novelists such as Mouloud Feraoun, Tahar Djaout, and Assia Djebar, and she investigates the intersection of Amazigh consciousness and the Beur movement in France. She also addresses the political and social role of the Kabyles in Algeria and in France, where after independence it was easier for the Berber community to express and organize itself. Ultimately, Aïtel argues that the Amazigh literary tradition is founded on dual priorities: the desire to foster a genuine dialogue while retaining a unique culture.

Author : Mouloud Feraoun
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080326903X

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Journal, 1955-1962 by Mouloud Feraoun Pdf

?This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to the public good, and who was one of the greatest writers in Algeria, has been murdered. . . . Not by accident, not by mistake, but called by his name and killed with preference.? So wrote Germaine Tillion in Le Monde shortly after Mouloud Feraoun?s assassination by a right wing French terrorist group, the Organisation Armäe Secr_te, just three days before the official cease-fire ended Algeria?s eight-year battle for independence from France. However, not even the gunmen of the OAS could prevent Feraoun?s journal from being published. Journal, 1955?1962 appeared posthumously in French in 1962 and remains the single most important account of everyday life in Algeria during decolonization. Feraoun was one of Algeria?s leading writers. He was a friend of Albert Camus, Emmanuel Robl_s, Pierre Bourdieu, and other French and North African intellectuals. A committed teacher, he had dedicated his life to preparing Algeria?s youth for a better future. As a Muslim and Kabyle writer, his reflections on the war in Algeria afford penetrating insights into the nuances of Algerian nationalism, as well as into complex aspects of intellectual, colonial, and national identity. Feraoun?s Journal captures the heartbreak of a writer profoundly aware of the social and political turmoil of the time. This classic account, now available in English, should be read by anyone interested in the history of European colonialism and the tragedies of contemporary Algeria.

Author : Nada Elia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135576325

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Trances, Dances and Vociferations by Nada Elia Pdf

Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall. Nada Elia explores the way in which black women characters use conjuring, double entendre, and song to empower, liberate and determine their own female insurgency. She also explains how African and Afrodiasporic women have been forced to rewrite history and substitute a communal and individual wholeness for alienation and separation in many different settings, from Algeria to Oklahoma. Ranging over works including Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade, Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Morrison's Jazz and Beloved, Elia offers essential and provocative insights into the works of some of our most influential Africana women authors today.

Author : Mohammed Dib
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803217137

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The Savage Night by Mohammed Dib Pdf

The Savage Night collects thirteen stories by Mohammed Dib, one of the founding fathers of North African literature. Whether set in present-day Algeria, depicting the war for independence, or evoking memories of the colonial era, many of the stories in The Savage Night paint a vivid picture of the diverse facets of the Algerian question. Dib's other settings include Latin America, war-torn Sarajevo, and Paris. A major element unifying his work is the unanswered question of human brutality. In the face of our shameful indifference, Dib shows us that senseless violence is a daily reality for many. The Savage Night is the first book-length English translation of Dib's work.

Author : Assia Djebar,Marjolijn De Jager
Publisher : Feminist Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558615113

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Children of the New World by Assia Djebar,Marjolijn De Jager Pdf

A compelling war novel, as seen by women, sheds light on the current Iraq conflict.

Author : Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi,Tuzyline Jita Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132441622

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The Twelve Best Books by African Women by Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi,Tuzyline Jita Allan Pdf

The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women's literature.

Author : Marnia Lazreg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351867023

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The Eloquence of Silence by Marnia Lazreg Pdf

The Eloquence of Silence, first published in 1994, is considered a seminal text in the scholarship of women and North Africa. Marnia Lazreg makes a critical departure from more traditional studies of Algerian women, which usually examine female roles in relation to Islam – and instead takes an interdisciplinary approach, arguing that Algerian women's roles are shaped by a variety of structural and symbolic factors. These include colonial domination, demographic change, nationalism, family formation, the turn to culturalism, and the progressive shift to a capitalist economy. Grounded in archival research supplemented by interviews, and adopting a historico-critical method, the book identifies and examines the significance of an enduring feature of women’s journey: their instrumental use as tropes in struggles between groups of men opposed to one another during political crises. It demonstrates that despite being central to contentious political issues, women’s needs and aspirations were obscured just as their voices have traditionally been silenced. This new edition is thoroughly updated throughout to connect the original material to major political disruptions in the twenty-first century, such as the 9/11 attacks on New York and events around the "Arab Spring." The book foregrounds women’s determination to forge ahead, as well as their activism, which led to progress in fighting rape and other forms of violence made banal in the wake of the civil war (1992–2002). It also calls for a "decolonization" of concepts and theoretical systems used in accounting for women’s lived reality, and a questioning of facile postfeminist discourses in their manifold expressions.

Author : Mildred Mortimer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813942063

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Women Fight, Women Write by Mildred Mortimer Pdf

Today, the "fight to write"—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment. In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of the Algerian War, Mildred Mortimer excavates and explores the role of women’s individual and collective memory in recording events of the violent anticolonial conflict. Presenting close readings of published works spanning five decades—from Assia Djebar’s 1962 Children of the New World to Zohra Drif’s 2014 Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter— Women Fight, Women Write traces stylistic and material transformations in Algerian women’s writings as it reveals evolving attitudes toward memory, trauma, historical objectivity, and women’s political empowerment. Refuting the stale binary of men in battle, women at home, these testimonial texts let women lay claim to the Algerian War story as participants and also as chroniclers through fiction, historical studies, and memoir. Algeria’s patriarchal norms long kept women from speaking publicly about private matters, silencing their experiences of the war. Still, the conflict has ceaselessly sparked creative work. The country’s dark decade of violent struggle between the Algerian army and Islamist fundamentalists in the 1990s brought the liberation struggle back into focus, inspiring and emboldening many more women to defiantly write. Women Fight, Women Write advances the broken silence, illuminating its vital historical revisions and literary innovations.

Author : Marie Darrieussecq
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565844424

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Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq Pdf

A young woman who lands a position at a beauty parlor enjoys great success until she slowly metamorphoses into a pig