Title Statements
- Full title :Polygraphies : Francophone women writing Algeria / Alison Rice.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Virginia Press
- Place of Publication:Charlottesville
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 243 p. ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0813932912, 9780813932910, 0813932920, 9780813932927, 0813932939, 9780813932934
- oclc:ocn810910386
- LC Classification:PQ3988.5.A5
- Dewey Decimal:840.9/92870965
Table of Contents
Introduction. The witness stand: where the truth lies -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion. Mass in A minor: putting Algeria on the map.
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