The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface by one of North Africa's leading writers depicts the plight of urban Algerian women who have thrown off the shackles of colonialism only to face a postcolonial regime that denies and subjugates them even as it celebrates the liberation of men. Denounced in...
The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Liter...
The West African writer, painter, playwright, and director Werewere Liking is considered one of the best literary interpreters of the postcolonial condition in Africa. Her first work to be translated into English, these two novels spare nothing in their satirical portraits of the patriarchal view of African society as they experiment radically with the novel form.
At once dramatic, lyrical, satirical, and epistolary, -It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral (Journal of a Misovire), - subtitled -A Song-Novel, - introduces the -misovire---literally defined as a man-hater but seen by Liking as...
The West African writer, painter, playwright, and director Werewere Liking is considered one of the best literary interpreters of the postcolonial ...
The West African writer, painter, playwright, and director Werewere Liking is considered one of the best literary interpreters of the postcolonial condition in Africa. Her first work to be translated into English, these two novels spare nothing in their satirical portraits of the patriarchal view of African society as they experiment radically with the novel form.
At once dramatic, lyrical, satirical, and epistolary, -It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral (Journal of a Misovire), - subtitled -A Song-Novel, - introduces the -misovire---literally defined as a man-hater but seen by Liking as...
The West African writer, painter, playwright, and director Werewere Liking is considered one of the best literary interpreters of the postcolonial ...
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Auge suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past. Renowned as an anthropologist and an innovative social thinker, Auge's meditation moves from how forgetting the present or recent past enables us to return to earlier pasts, to how forgetting propels us into the present, and finally to how forgetting becomes a necessary part of survival. "Oblivion moves with authority and ease among a wide variety of...
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forge...
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Auge suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past. Renowned as an anthropologist and an innovative social thinker, Auge's meditation moves from how forgetting the present or recent past enables us to return to earlier pasts, to how forgetting propels us into the present, and finally to how forgetting becomes a necessary part of survival. "Oblivion moves with authority and ease among a wide variety of...
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forge...
Assia Djebar, one of the most distinguished woman writers to emerge from the Arab world, wrote Children of the New World following her own involvement in the Algerian resistance to colonial French rule. Like the classic film The Battle of Algiers--enjoying renewed interest in the face of world events--Djebar's novel sheds light on current world conflicts as it reveals a determined Arab insurgency against foreign occupation, from the inside out. However, Djebar focuses on the experiences of women drawn into the politics of resistance. Her novel recounts the interlocking lives...
Assia Djebar, one of the most distinguished woman writers to emerge from the Arab world, wrote Children of the New World following her own invo...
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar gives a chilling firsthand account of religious extremism and intellectual persecution in her native Algeria. She recounts the lives of three of her friends a psychiatrist, a sociologist, and a playwright who were killed in the aftermath of the 1956 struggle for independence. But Djebar will not allow her friends to be silenced. Her powerful memoir grows from conversations remembered and imagined with these fallen comrades and reflects on the horrors of war and exile. This is a chilling first-hand account of the religious extremism and intellectual persecution...
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar gives a chilling firsthand account of religious extremism and intellectual persecution in her native Algeria. She reco...
Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember, David Lowenthal wrote in "The Past is a Foreign Country." It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds his memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists in the East Indies during the World War II.
Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember, Davi...
Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember, David Lowenthal wrote in "The Past is a Foreign Country." It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds his memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists in the East Indies during the World War II.
Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember, Davi...
