Polygraphies [electronic resource] : Francophone women writing Algeria / Alison Rice.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)ISBN:- 9780813932934
- 0813932939
- Feminism and literature -- Algeria -- History -- 20th century
- Women and literature -- Algeria -- History -- 20th century
- Women authors, Arab -- Algeria -- Political and social views
- Women authors, Algerian -- Political and social views
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Women in literature
- Algerian literature (French) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Algeria -- In literature
- 840.9/92870965 23
- PQ3988.5.A5 R53 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. The witness stand: where the truth lies -- The autobiographical springboard. Le moi à plusieurs reprises: from confession to testimony in the autobiographical writings of Helene Cixous and Assia Djebar; La singularite de l'alterite: self-portraiture and the other in Maissa Bey -- Takeoff points. La terre maternelle: Algeria and the mother in the work of Marie Cardinal, Helene Cixous, and Assia Djebar; "La celebration d'une terre-mere": Albert Camus and Algeria according to Maissa Bey and Assia Djebar -- Embodiments. Écrire les maux: Helene Cixous and writing the body over time; Sexualites et sensualites: corporeal configurations in the work of Maissa Bey, Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem, and Leila Sebbar -- Reverberations. Ruptures intimes: sentimental splitting in the work of Assia Djebar; Lourds retours: coming back to Algeria in Malika Mokeddem's L'interdite; Fille de harki: relating to the father, country, and religion in the writing of Zahia Rahmani; Fabulation et imagination: women, nation, and identification in Maissa Bey's Cette fille-là -- Conclusion. Mass in A minor: putting Algeria on the map.
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