In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M'Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist; as well as Albert Camus. In Algerian White, Djebar finds a way to meld the personal and the political by describing in intimate detail the final days and hours of these and other Algerian men and women, many of whom were murdered merely because they were teachers, or writers, or students. Yet, for Djebar, they cannot be silenced. They continue to tell stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen. Both fiction and memoir, Algerian White describes with unerring accuracy the lives and deaths of those whose contributions were cut short, and then probes even deeper into the meaning of friendship through imagined conversations and ghostly visitations.
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In the words of William Gass, "ASSIA DJEBAR . . . has given weeping its words and longing its lyrics." She is a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Those dear disappeared: they speak to me. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kateb Yacine, Abane Ramdane, Tahar Djaout, Ben M'Hidi, Malek Haddad, Mouloud Mammeri, Krim Belkacem, Ould Aoudia, Abdelkader Alloula, Ferhat Abbas, Mouloud Feraoun, Albert Camus, Ali Zaamoum, Bachir Hadj Ali, New York, Battle of Algiers, Ben Bella, Ben Tobbal, Cheikh Mohand, Taos Amrouche, Youssef Sebti, Bay of Algiers, Frantz Fanon, Jean Amrouche, San Francisco New!
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Those dear disappeared: they speak to me. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kateb Yacine, Abane Ramdane, Tahar Djaout, Ben M'Hidi, Malek Haddad, Mouloud Mammeri, Krim Belkacem, Ould Aoudia, Abdelkader Alloula, Ferhat Abbas, Mouloud Feraoun, Albert Camus, Ali Zaamoum, Bachir Hadj Ali, New York, Battle of Algiers, Ben Bella, Ben Tobbal, Cheikh Mohand, Taos Amrouche, Youssef Sebti, Bay of Algiers, Frantz Fanon, Jean Amrouche, San Francisco New!
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- The First Man by Albert Camus on page 17, and page 94
- Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol on page 30
- The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri on page 5
- The Servant of Two Masters (Plays for Performance Series) by Dorothy Louise on page 70
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on page 81
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- Imaginary States: STUDIES IN CULTURAL TRANSNATIONALISM (Transnational Cultural Studies) by Peter Hitchcock on 4 pages
- Strategies of Resistance in the Dramatic Texts of North African Women: A Body of Words (Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law) by Laura Chakravarty Box on page 99, and Back Matter
- The Power of the Word / La Puissance du Verbe: The Cambridge Colloquia (Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 83) (English and French Edition) by T.J. Cribb in Back Matter
- The Idea of the Literary: Paragraph; Volume 28, Number 2 (Paragraph Special Issues) by Nicholas Harrison in Back Matter
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