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Leïla Sebbar - Arabic as a Secret Song (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French) - 9780813937571 - V9780813937571
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Arabic as a Secret Song (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)

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Description for Arabic as a Secret Song (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French) Paperback. Translator(s): Artes, Skyler. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume. Written between 1978 and 2006, they trace a journey that began in Aflou, Algeria, where her father ran a schoolhouse, and continued to France, where Sebbar traveled, alone, as a graduate student before eventually realizing her powerful creative vision.

The pieces collected in this book capture an array of experiences, sensations, and sentiments surrounding the French colonial presence in Algeria and offer an intimate and prismatic reflection on Sebbar’s bicultural upbringing as the child of an Algerian father and French mother. Sebbar offers an unflinching portrait of her original disconnection from her father’s Arabic language and culture; she goes on to describe her struggle to revive a cultural heritage that her family had deliberately obscured and translate into French the vibrant yet muted Arabic of her father and of Algeria. Looking back from numerous vantage points throughout her life, she presents the complicated and divisive dynamics of being raised ""between two shores""--the colonized and the colonizer.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937571
SKU
V9780813937571
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About Leïla Sebbar
Leïla Sebbar is a prolific author whose works include essays, short fiction, plays, and film scripts, as well as the novels The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961; Silence on the Shores; and Shérazade, Missing: Age 17, dark curly hair, green eyes, among others. Born in Algeria, she lives and teaches in Paris, France. Skyler Artes works as a translator and has lectured at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and the University of Denver, USA. Mildred Mortimer is Professor Emerita of French and French African Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

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