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Assia Djebar
Jane Hiddleston
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Paperback. For more than fifty years, Assia Djebar, winner of the Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, used the tools of poetry, fiction, drama and film to vividly portray the world of Muslim women in all its complexity. This book traces Djebar's development as a writer against the backdrop of North Africa's tumultuous history. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 220 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
For more than fifty years, Assia Djebar, former Silver Chair of French at New York University and winner of the Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, used the tools of poetry, fiction, drama and film to vividly portray the world of Muslim women in all its complexity. In the process, she became one of the most important figures in North African literature. In Assia Djebar, Jane Hiddleston traces Djebar’s development as a writer against the backdrop of North Africa’s tumultuous history. Whereas Djebar’s early writings were largely an attempt to delineate clearly the experience of being a woman, an ... Read more
For more than fifty years, Assia Djebar, former Silver Chair of French at New York University and winner of the Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, used the tools of poetry, fiction, drama and film to vividly portray the world of Muslim women in all its complexity. In the process, she became one of the most important figures in North African literature. In Assia Djebar, Jane Hiddleston traces Djebar’s development as a writer against the backdrop of North Africa’s tumultuous history. Whereas Djebar’s early writings were largely an attempt to delineate clearly the experience of being a woman, an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846316852
SKU
V9781846316852
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About Jane Hiddleston
Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for Assia Djebar
Excellent… it will appeal greatly to academics and research students in the UK and North America as well as the rest of Europe as it gives an excellent overview of Djebar’s work. ... a remarkable, comprehensive study of the celebrated francophone woman writer's literary trajectory.
CLIO
Outstanding accomplishment ... [an] invaluable work.
South Central Review, Vol. 25.3 ... Read more
CLIO
Outstanding accomplishment ... [an] invaluable work.
South Central Review, Vol. 25.3 ... Read more