In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They inclu...
So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting wit...
Explorant les origines littéraires des Révolutions arabes sous la triple perspective critique, politique et autobiographique, cet essai éclaire d'un jour original les romans nord-africains des années 2000, en identifiant notamment, dans cette littérature ...
What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence? Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebars The Tongues Blood Does Not Run Dry reaches into the void where normal and impossible realities coexist. All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996a time when, by official accounts, some two hu...