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Algerian Imprints : Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous /
Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on the very basis of dissensus.In a rare comparison of these authors' writings, Algerian Imprints s...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Dissensus; or, The Political in the Writings of Djebar and Cixous
- PART ONE: Colonial Demarcations
- chapter one The Gravity of the Body: Djebar's and Cixous's Textuality
- Chapter two Going to School in French Algeria: The Archive of Colonial Education
- PART TWO: Poetics of Language
- Chapter three: Vanishing Inscriptions: Djebar's Poetics of the Trace
- Chapter four: Poetic Inc.: Language as Hospitality in Cixous
- PART THREE: Algerian War
- Chapter five: The Sound of Broken Memory: Djebar's Women Fighters
- Chapter six: Allergy in the Body Politic: War in Cixous
- Conclusion: The Logic of the Veil; or, The Epistemology of Nonseeing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index