Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria
Jane Hiddleston
Abstract
Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria is a book about expatriation, and the constant, necessary revisiting that follows. In the book, Hiddleston seeks to conceptualise Djebar’s progressive struggle and dissatisfaction with the notion of Algerian identity by referring to a number of contemporary theoretical concepts. Hiddleston’s analysis of the Djebar’s gradual and partial ‘expatriation’ is shaped heavily by the writer’s participation in crossroads between French philosophy, multiple Algerian traditions, and Anglo-American postcolonial theory. The study also situates Djebar’s thinking in recent French ... More
Keywords: French and Francophone Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism, African Literature, Assia Djebar, Postcolonialism, French Studies
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9781846310317 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: January 2019 | DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781846310317.001.0001 |
