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Indlæser... Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1980)af Assia Djebar
   Women in Islam (93) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   Buecherei.das-Sarah | May 20, 2015 |  an Algerian Cavalcade won the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize, and she has written and directed two feature-length films: La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, which won first prize at the Venice Festival, and La Zerda et les chants de l'oubli. Djebar is director of the Center for French and Freancophone Studies at Louisiana State University. Marjolijn de Jager has published numerous translations of Literary works. Clarisse Zimra is Associate Professor of English in Modern Literary Theory and Criticism and Comparative Literature at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. TIISHARED | Jun 23, 2014 |  ) yermat | Jan 8, 2013 |  )1  hemlokgang | Dec 12, 2012 | In “Overture”, Djebar describes her book’s goal and the hidden voices of women she is trying to capture. These stories, a few frames of reference on a journey of listening, from 1958 to 1978. Fragmented, remembered, reconstituted conversations…Fictious accounts, faces and murmurings of a nearby imaginary, a past-present that rebels against the intrusion of a new abstraction. I could say: ”stories translated from…,” but from which language? From the Arabic? From colloquial Arabic or from feminine; one might just as well call it underground Arabic… Arabic sounds—Italian, Afghan, Berber, or Bengali—and why not, but always in feminine tones, uttered from lips beneath a mask… Words of the veiled body, language that in turn has taken the veil for so long a time. Here, then, is a listening in… The first and title story is about Algerian women of various backgrounds who still bear physical and psychological scars of the brutal Algerian war against French colonialization. There is the educated surgeon’s wife seeking to help her French childhood friend back from a suicide attempt while still dealing with her own adolescent years spent in prison and the silence she always carries. And the old, wrinkled woman who carries water at the public bath recalling what she has suffered and lost in the course of her life. The second section portrays the war years themselves with women exiled, imprisoned or left behind when the men went to fight. Both sections convey how war affects women in particular ways, often differently than it affects men. Read more on my blog: me, you and books http://mdbrady.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/women-of-algiers-in-their-apartment-by-a... mdbrady | Feb 18, 2012 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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 Algeria for its political criticism, Djebar's book quickly sold out its first printing of 15,000 copies in France and was hugely popular in Italy. Her stylistically innovative, lyrical stories address the cloistering of women, the implications of reticence, the connection of language to oppression, and the impact of war on both women and men. The Afterword by Clarisse Zimra includes an illuminating interview with Djebar. No library descriptions found. |
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