Assia Djebar
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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...
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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...
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The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry
Djebar Assia
- Seven stories press digital
- 4 Janvier 2011
- 9781583229699
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...
