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Women fight, women write : texts on the Algerian war / Mildred Mortimer

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Mortimer, Mildred P.
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
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1 online resource (x, 271 pages)
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Contents
Introduction: women write, women fight -- Writing women into history: Daniele Djamila Amrane-Minne -- Herstory is the war story: from Assia Djebar's early fiction to L'amour, la fantasia -- Mapping the traumascape: Yamina Mechraka's La grotte eclatee -- Wounded memories: Maissa Bey's Entendez-vous dans les montagnes -- Collective trauma, collective memory: Leila Sebbar's La seine etait rouge and une enfance -- Dans la guerre: Algerie, 1954-1962 -- Testimonial literature: self-reflection in the works of Zohra Drif, Louisette Ighilahriz, and Eveline Safir Lavalette -- Remembering Zoulikha in Assia Djebar's film and fiction -- Conclusion: the silence has been broken.
Summary
"This book examines Algerian women's narratives of the Algerian War of Independence, drawing on political and historical analyses, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, essays, and films"--
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9780813942049 (electronic bk.)
0813942047 (electronic bk.)
9780813942063 (electronic bk.)
0813942063 (electronic bk.)
9780813942056
0813942055
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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