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 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...
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...
Im Reich der Frauen, in der intimen Atmosphäre eines Dampfbads, unter den liebenswürdigen, aber auch neidischen Blicken hört ein junges Mädchen das Wort "Feind". Denn sobald sich das Gespräch der Frauen um den Ehemann dreht, ist von ihm, dem "Feind" die Rede. Seit Jahrhunderten wird dieses Wort überliefert, denn er ist verantwortlich für die Verzweiflung unter den Frauen.§Es ist diese Verzweiflung, die auch der Erzählerin droht: 37 Jahre alt, verheiratet, Intellektuelle, wohnt in Algier und ist in Liebe zu einem viel jüngeren Berber entflammt. Schuldgefühle, unerlaubte...
Im Reich der Frauen, in der intimen Atmosphäre eines Dampfbads, unter den liebenswürdigen, aber auch neidischen Blicken hört ein junges Mädchen da...
