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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Algerian literature"”.
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"Assia Djebar and ""La Ville Blanche"": Writing in and on the *City"
… deployment of Algiers stands in contrast to much Algerian literature, which tends to depict the city as an alienating and hostile space, or with regard to much colonial literature, as a paradise of innocent pleasures. For purposes of condensation, I identify the movement of the subject through the …
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Poétique(s) de la révolution: construction d’identité au travers des littératures Algérienne et Haïtienne
… but constantly evolving. I show how, in these literatures written in French from Haiti and Algeria, revolution becomes an embedded trait of identity and a way of thinking despite their specific colonial histories, cultures and traditions. My project is framed by postcolonial theories but also …
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Defying distance : remembrance, narration, and the gender imaginary in Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine
This dissertation explores Algerian author Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine (1991) (Far from Madina), a novel that re-imagines the early Islamic past through women’s perspectives. Djebar framed the work as an inspired re-reading of the earliest Sunni historiography compendiums: Ibn Hishām’s (d. …