Algerian white
Subtitle: a narrative
By: Assia Djebar ; translated from the French by David Kelley and Marjolijn de Jager
Edition: Seven Stories Press 1st ed
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Authors, Algerian -- 20th century; Politics and literature -- Algeria; Islam and politics -- Algeria -- History -- 20th century; Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962
Work titles: Blanc d'Algérie.
Description: "In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves an epic tapestry out of her intimate connection to a group of Algerian writers and intellectuals whose lives were cut short since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M'Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist - the beloved friends to whom she dedicates the book - as well as Albert Camus.

She records the horrors of her country's civil wars and untangles the complex political and social issues that led to the long trail of blood. This utterly unique book grows from conversations remembered and imagined, meditations on her fallen literary/intellectual/spiritual peers and predecessors. Yet for Djebar, they cannot be silenced. They continue to tell stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen.

This cultural and political history of Algeria's cross-cultural reality and its fight against colonization is infused with the oral tradition of Djebar's Berber roots."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references