Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
224
Utgivningsdatum
1992-11-01
Förlag
University of Virginia Press
Översättare
Marjolijn de Jager, Marjolijn De Jager
Originalspråk
French
Medarbetare
Jager, Marjolijn De
Illustratör/Fotograf
Clarisse Zimra
Dimensioner
225 x 149 x 25 mm
Vikt
495 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780813914022

Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

av Assia Djebar
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1992-11-01
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The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface by one of North Africa's leading writers depicts the plight of urban Algerian women who have thrown off the shackles of colonialism only to face a postcolonial regime that denies and subjugates them even as it celebrates the liberation of men. Denounced in Algeria for its political criticism, Djebar's book quickly sold out its first printing of 15,000 copies in France and was hugely popular in Italy. Her stylistically innovative, lyrical stories address the cloistering of women, the implications of reticence, the connection of language to oppression, and the impact of war on both women and men. The Afterword by Clarisse Zimra includes an illuminating interview with Djebar.
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Anyone into postcolonial fiction won't find better alternatives, even on a sunny day, than reading Djebar. - Voice Literary Supplement Algerian-born writer and filmmaker Djebar... makes her American debut with a collection offering memorable portraits of Arabic women in a time of change. Spanning the years 1958 to 1979, a period when Algeria fought a bitter war of independence from France and experienced a socialist revolution, Djebar's stories are intended to be 'the voice of all the women they've kept walled in' in Islamic society.... As much a critique as a picture of [this] society, Djebar's debut--plus its informative afterword--is an elegant and evocative introduction to a too little-known world. - Kirkus Reviews A vivid and poignant picture of what goes on behind the veils imposed by Algeria's Islamic society. - Choice

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Assia Djebar is also the author of several novels and a play. Her novel Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade won the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize and she has written and directed two feature-length films: La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, which won first prize at the Venice Festival, and La zerda et les chants de l'oubli. Djebar is director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University. Marjolijn de Jager has published numerous translations of literary works. Clarisse Zimra is Associate Professor of English in Modern Literary Theory and Criticism and Comparative Literature at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

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