num_pages: 256
description: Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today including Massa Bey Hlne Cixous Assia Djebar and Malika Mokeddem. These authors witnessed both the before and after of the colonial experience in their land and their fictional and theoretical texts testify to the lasting impact of this history. From a variety of personal perspectives and backgrounds each writer addresses linguistic religious and racial issues of crucial contemporary importance in Algeria. Alison Rice engages their work from a range of disciplines striving both to heighten our sensitivity to the plurality inherent in their texts and to move beyond a true/false dichotomy to a wealth of possible truths all communicated in writing.
language: English
title: Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria
publisher: University of Virginia Press