| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 207 pages) |
| Contents |
Colonial demarcations -- The gravity of the body : Djebar's and Cixous's textuality -- Going to school in French Algeria : the archive of colonial education -- Poetics of language -- Vanishing inscriptions : Djebar's poetics of the trace -- Poetic inc. : language as hospitality in Cixous -- Algerian war -- The sound of broken memory : Djebar's women fighters -- Allergy in the body politic : war in Cixous |
| Summary |
Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on the very basis of dissensus. In a rare comparison of these authors' writings, this book shows how Cixous and Djebar consistently reclaim for ethical and political purposes the demarcations and dislocations emphasized in their fictions. Their works affirm the chance for thinking afforded by marginalization and exclusion and delineate political ways of preserving a space for difference informed by |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cixous, Hélène, 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Cixous, Hélène, 1937- fast |
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Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 fast |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- Algeria
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Politics and literature -- Algeria
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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Politics and literature
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Women and literature
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Literatur
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Diskriminierung Motiv
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Algeria
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231539876 |
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0231539878 |
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