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Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria

Jane Hiddleston

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9781846310317

Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: January 2019

DOI: 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310317.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

Chapter:
(p.1) Introduction
Source:
Assia Djebar
Author(s):

Jane Hiddleston

Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781846310317.003.0001

In this first chapter, Hiddleston comments on the significance of expatriation and the memory of native lands in Djebar’s work. The chapter also introduces the recurring themes present in the text, including discussion of colonialism, Islamism, and the attempt at tracing sense of identity.

Keywords:   French and Francophone Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism, African Literature, Assia Djebar, Postcolonialism, French Studies

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