Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria
by Jane Hiddleston
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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 show more history. Whereas Djebar?s 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, women?s studies or Francophone culture. show lessTags
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Jane Hiddleston is Fellow and Tutor in French at Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK Her previous books include Understanding Postcolonialism (2009) and Postructuralism and Postcoloniality (2010).
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 843.914 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PQ3989.2 .D57 .Z69 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc.
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