Trances, Dances and Vociferations
Subtitle: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 2222.)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780815338420
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Women Authors; Djebar, Assia,; Women and literature; Blacks In Literature; Women In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; History; American - African American; American - African American & Black; Cliff, Michelle; Criticism and interpretation; Djebar, Assia; Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black; 20th century; African American authors; American fiction; Caribbean Area; History and criticism
First sentence: When Algerian novelist Assia Djebar set out to write her autobiography, she was confronted with the realization that she could do it only in French, the language of her former oppressor.