Assia Djebar - Out of Algeria

Klappentext For more than fifty years! Assia Djebar has used the tools of poetry! fiction! drama! and film to vividly portray the complex world of Muslim women. 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. Djebar's early writings were largely an attempt to delineate the experience of being a woman! an intellectual! and an Algerian! but her more recent work evinces 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 indispensable writer! "Assia Djebar" will interest scholars of postcolonial literature! women's studies! or francophone culture. Zusammenfassung 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 of poetry! fiction! drama and film to vividly portray the world of Muslim women in all its complexity.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Hiddleston, Jane (Exeter College Hiddleston
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2006
• EAN: 9781846310317
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-031-7
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies