| Description |
1 online resource (x, 271 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: women write, women fight -- Writing women into history: Daniele Djamila Amrane-Minne -- Herstory is the war story: from Assia Djebar's early fiction to L'amour, la fantasia -- Mapping the traumascape: Yamina Mechraka's La grotte eclatee -- Wounded memories: Maissa Bey's Entendez-vous dans les montagnes -- Collective trauma, collective memory: Leila Sebbar's La seine etait rouge and une enfance -- Dans la guerre: Algerie, 1954-1962 -- Testimonial literature: self-reflection in the works of Zohra Drif, Louisette Ighilahriz, and Eveline Safir Lavalette -- Remembering Zoulikha in Assia Djebar's film and fiction -- Conclusion: the silence has been broken |
| Summary |
"This book examines Algerian women's narratives of the Algerian War of Independence, drawing on political and historical analyses, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, essays, and films"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 19, 2018) |
| Subject |
Algerian literature (French) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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Algerian literature (French) -- Women authors
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813942049 |
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0813942047 |
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9780813942063 |
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0813942063 |
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