| Algerian White: A Narrative Contributor(s): Djebar, Assia (Author), Kelley, David (Translator), de Jager, Marjolijn (Translator) |
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ISBN: 158322050X ISBN-13: 9781583220504 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Djebar uses the deaths of three friends--a sociologist, a psychiatrist, and a playwright--as a springboard for a meditation on the history of modern Algeria and an insider's view of the horrors of civil war. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00051014 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.3" W x 9.29" (1.00 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M'Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist; as well as Albert Camus. In Algerian White, Djebar finds a way to meld the personal and the political by describing in intimate detail the final days and hours of these and other Algerian men and women, many of whom were murdered merely because they were teachers, or writers, or students. Yet, for Djebar, they cannot be silenced. They continue to tell stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen. Both fiction and memoir, Algerian White describes with unerring accuracy the lives and deaths of those whose contributions were cut short, and then probes even deeper into the meaning of friendship through imagined conversations and ghostly visitations. |