Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 6) (Volume 6) - Hardcover

Hiddleston, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846310318 ISBN 13: 9781846310317

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Hiddleston is a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and fellow of Exeter College. Her books include Assia Djebar: Out of Africa and Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality, both published by Liverpool University Press.

Review:

 “An impressive overview of the literary output of one of Algeria’s most prolific writers. . . . This study is the first of its kind to devote itself entirely to the changing trajectory of Djebar’s fiction.”

(Modern Language Review)

"An excellent overview of Djebar’s work. [It] will appeal greatly to academics and research students in the UK and North America as well as the rest of Europe."—Ana de Medeiros, University of Kent (Ana de Medeiros, University of Kent)

"A remarkable, comprehensive study of the celebrated francophone woman writer's literary trajectory."—Clio
(Clio)

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1846310318
• ISBN 13: 9781846310317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220