Polygraphies
Subtitle: Francophone women writing Algeria
By: Alison Rice
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813932910; 9780813932927; 9780813932934
Subjects: Feminism and literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Women in literature; Algerian Women authors; History and criticism; Political and social views; Arab Women authors; Women authors; Women and literature; Algerian literature (French); In literature; History
Other titles: Francophone women writing Algeria
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The witness stand: where the truth lies; title: The autobiographical springboard. Le moi à plusieurs reprises: from confession to testimony in  the autobiographical writings of Helene Cixous and Assia Djebar; La singularité de l'altérité: self-portraiture and the other in Maissa Bey; title: Takeoff points. La terre maternelle: Algeria and the mother in the work of Marie Cardinal, Helene Cixous, and Assia Djebar; "La celebration d'une terre-mère": Albert Camus and Algeria according to Maissa Bey and Assia Djebar; title: Embodiments. Écrire les maux: Helene Cixous and writing the body over time; Sexualités et sensualités: corporeal configurations in the work of Maissa Bey, Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem, and Leila Sebbar; title: Reverberations. Ruptures intimes: sentimental splitting in the work of Assia Djebar; Lourds retours: coming back to Algeria in Malika Mokeddem's L'interdite; Fille de harki: relating to the father, country, and religion in the writing of Zahia Rahmani; Fabulation et imagination: women, nation, and identification in Maissa Bey's Cette fille-là; title: Conclusion. Mass in A minor: putting Algeria on the map.