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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Assia Djebar"”.
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National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
… examines how Nawal El Saadawi of Egypt and Assia Djebar of Algeria treat the national allegory that makes use of images of nation as woman and land as woman as well as woman as land and woman as nation. My question is what these two women do with this Arab narrative tradition used mainly by …
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"Assia Djebar and ""La Ville Blanche"": Writing in and on the *City"
… over the water, a recurring image in a number of Djebar's novels. This 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 …
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L'esthétique de la traversée: Chaïbia Tallal, Maïssa Bey et Assia Djebar
… Chaïbia Tallal, and the Algerian novelists Assia Djebar and Maïssa Bey have creatively challenged the orientalist representation of the silenced, helpless, and oppressed Arab woman. They simultaneously take issue with the framework of her eroticized portrait, that of the seductive and …
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Reclaiming, narrating, and reinterpreting aspects of religion in Taos Amrouche, Hélène Cixous, and Assia Djebar
… women authors, Taos Amrouche, Hélène Cixous, and Assia Djebar, approach their respective religions and portray them in their works. Through textual evidence from their fictional works, I show how the problematic of religion in Algeria – where the three Abrahamic religions have been in tension at …
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Symbols and Worlds: a study of the Sacred in a selection of works by Assia Djebar, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie
… concept of the Sacred in a selection of texts by Assia Djebar, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie. The aims of this thesis are threefold. The first aim is to demonstrate that the selected texts of the three authors creatively engage with the Sufi Islamic heritage through the use of symbolic …
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"""Who speaks for me, with and to me?"" Subalternity and representation in the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar"
… three writers: Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar. Devi, Head, and Djebar write about disenfranchised groups of people whose ontological existences are marginalized and silenced by mainstream social and national discourses of postcolonial nation-states such as India, South Africa, and …
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Islamic culture and the question of women’s human rights in North Africa : a study of short stories by Assia Djebar and Alifa Rifaat
… African women writers, Alifa Rifaat of Egypt and Assia Djebar of Algeria, this study, entitled ‘Islamic culture and the question of women’s human rights in North Africa: a study of short stories by Assia Djebar and Alifa Rifaat’, analyzes the creative representation of contemporary Muslim society …
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Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
… novels and short stories by Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, Julio Cortázar and Luisa Valenzuela; the films I examine most closely are the Algerian-Italian ‘docudrama’ La Bataille d’Alger and the Argentine melodrama La historia oficial. However, the thesis also addresses other non-factual …
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La honte et la culpabilité: destins de femmes dans les récits algeriens du xxe et xxie siécle
… that in three recent autofictional works by Assia Djebar (Nulle part dans la maison de mon père), Maïssa Bey (Bleu blanc vert) and Leïla Aslaoui (Coupables), by exposing feelings of shame and guilt, the authors accomplish a surprising task. Despite the negative connotation of these terms and …
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Masculinities in Immigrant Women's Writing in France and Canada
… Léonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou Diome (Senegal), Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Ying Chen (China), and Kim Thúy (Vietnam), to gauge the extent to which migration generates new ways of understanding and writing masculinities. I draw on a range of theoretical …
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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. …