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Djebar, Assia, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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For more than fifty years, Assia Djebar, Silver Chair of French at New York University and winner of the Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, has used the tools of poetry, fiction, drama and film to vividly portray the world of Muslim women in all its complexity. In the process, she has become one of the most important figures in North African literature. In Assia Djebar, Jane Hiddleston traces Djebar’s development as a writer against the backdrop of North Africa’s tumultuous history. Whereas Djebar’s early writings were largely an attempt to delineate clearly the experience of being a woman, an intellectual, and an Algerian embedded in that often violent history, she has in her more recent work evinced a growing sense that the influence of French culture on Algerian letters may make such a project impossible. The first book-length study of this significant writer, Assia Djebar will be of tremendous interest to anyone studying post-colonial literature, women’s studies or Francophone culture.

Languages & Literatures --- Romance Literatures --- French Literature --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- Djebar, Assia, --- Jabbār, Āsiyā --- Djebar, Assia --- Djebar, A. --- Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Algeria --- In literature. --- Algerians in literature. --- Algerian literature (French) --- Women authors --- History and criticism.

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What are the political implications of an Arab feminist writing practice? How do the works of Assia Djebar, Algeria's internationally acclaimed francophone writer, relate to the priorities and perspectives of both Western and Arab feminist politics? Does Djebar succeed in her aim of reclaiming the history of her homeland, and of her religion, Islam, for women? Or in reclaiming the sexuality of Arab women? In Assia Djebar: In Dialogue with Feminisms , Priscilla Ringrose uncovers the mechanisms of Djebar's revisionary feminism and examines the echoes and dissonances between what Djebar terms her "own kind of feminism" and the thinking of French and Arab feminists such as Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva, Mernissi and Ahmed. Arguing that Djebar's work is in constant dialogue with other feminisms, Ringrose assesses the strengths and weaknesses of its ideals and identifies their own particular intervention into current political and cultural debates. This book will appeal not only to scholars working on Djebar, but also to students of colonial history, women's studies and cultural politics.

Feminism and literature. --- Feminism in literature. --- Muslim women in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Feminist theory in literature --- Literature --- Women authors --- Djebar, Assia, --- Jabbār, Āsiyā --- Djebar, Assia --- Djebar, A. --- Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Djebbar, Assia, --- Jabbār, Āsiyā, --- Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra, --- Literature and feminism

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This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelkébir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual's relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned primarily with the writer's 'testimony value', Kelly concentrates instead on the poetic and literary qualities of each author's work, dwelling on the politics and poetics of identity, as well as the ethics and aesthetics of this literature. She includes clear discussions of key terms such as 'postcolonial', 'Francophone', and 'autobiography', which current academic discourse has rendered very complex and even opaque. The book includes a fascinating photograph of two stone tablets inscribed with Punic and Numidian scripts, now held in the British Museum, which Assia Djebar writes about at length in one of the texts studied in the book.

North African literature (French) --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Feraoun, Mouloud --- Djebar, Assia, --- Memmi, Albert --- Khatibi, Abdelkebir, --- ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Khaṭībī, --- ʻAbd al-Kabīr Khaṭībī, --- Abdelkebir Khatibi, --- Khaṭībī, ʻAbd al-Kabīr, --- Khatibi, Abdelkabir, --- خطيبي، عبد الكبير --- خطيبي، عبد الكبير، --- عبد الكبير الخطيبي --- ממי, אלבר --- Memi, Alber --- Djebbar, Assia, --- Jabbār, Āsiyā, --- Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra, --- Firʻawn, Mawlūd --- فرعون، مولود --- مولود فرعون --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Khatibi, Abdelkbir, --- Jabbār, Āsiyā --- Djebar, Assia --- Djebar, A. --- Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra

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The resurgence of 'world literature' as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture? Beyond the content of this novel or that, what elements of postcolonial fiction might challenge the assumption that its main aim is to circulate native information globally? "The Long Space" provides a fresh look at the importance of postcolonial writing by examining how it articulates history and place both in content and form. Not only does it offer a new theoretical model for understanding decolonization's impact on duration in writing, but through a series of case studies of Guyanese, Somali, Indonesian, and Algerian writers, it urges a more protracted engagement with time and space in postcolonial narrative. Although each writer - Wilson Harris, Nuruddin Farah, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Assia Djebar - explores a unique understanding of postcoloniality, each also makes a more general assertion about the difference of time and space in decolonization. Taken together, they herald a transnationalism beyond the contaminated coordinates of globalization as currently construed.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Transnationalism in literature. --- Space and time in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- History and criticism. --- Harris, Wilson --- Farah, Nuruddin, --- Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, --- Djebar, Assia, --- Djebbar, Assia, --- Jabbār, Āsiyā, --- Imalhayene, Fatma-Zohra, --- Tur, Pramudya Ananta, --- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, --- Pramudya Ananta Tur, --- Po-a-nan-ta Tu-erh, --- Tu-erh, Po-a-nan-ta, --- Tur, Pramudya A. --- Pram, --- Nuruddin Farah, --- Harris, Theodore Wilson --- Waruk, Kona --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Space and time in literature --- Transnationalism in literature --- History and criticism --- Espace et temps --- Transnationalisme --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Espace et temps -- Dans la littérature --- Transnationalisme -- Dans la littérature --- Littérature postcoloniale -- Thèmes, motifs