Arabic as a secret song
By: Leïla Sebbar ; translated by Skyler Artes ; afterword by Mildred Mortimer
Contributors: Artes, Skyler, translator
Series: CARAF books: Caribbean and African literature translated from French; CARAF books
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780813937564; 9780813937571
Subjects: French Authors; Algerian Authors; Family; Social conditions; Algerians; Biography
Work titles: Arabe comme un chant secret
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: If I Speak My Mother's Language...; title: If I Do Not Speak My Father's Language...; title: My Father's Body in My Mother's Language; title: The Mothers of My Father's People in My Mother's Language; title: The Silence of My Father's Language, Arabic; title: The Return of the Absent One; title: To Hear Arabic as a Sacred Song; title: I Write of Arabic, Foreign at Home, and of God, Foreign at Home; title: I Write the Imaginary Arab, My Father.