TY - BOOK AU - Rice,Alison ED - Project Muse. TI - Polygraphies: Francophone women writing Algeria SN - 9780813932934 AV - PQ3988.5.A5 R53 2012 U1 - 840.9/92870965 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Feminism and literature KW - Algeria KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Women and literature KW - Women authors, Arab KW - Political and social views KW - Women authors, Algerian KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Algerian literature (French) KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - In literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813932934/ ER -