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- catalog abstract "Translated for the first time into English, this collection of short fiction by one of the leading writers of North Africa details the plight of Algerian women and raises far-reaching issues that speak to us all. Women of Algiers quickly sold out its first printing of 15,000 in France and was hugely popular in Italy, but the book was denounced in Algeria for its criticism of the postcolonial socialist regime, which denied and subjugated women even as it celebrated the liberation of men. It was the first work to do so openly. These stylistically innovative, lyrical stories address the cloistering of women, the implications of reticence, and the significance of language and its connection to oppression (Djebar calls official Arabic "an authoritarian language that is simultaneously the language of men"). Mixing newly written pieces with older ones, Djebar attempts "to bring the past into a dialogue with the present". The stories raise issues surrounding this passage from colonial to postcolonial culture - national literature, cultural authenticity, and the impact of war on both men and women. The book's title comes from a Delacroix painting that depicts a unique glimpse of the harem, an emblem of the dual violation of Algerian women, both colonial and gendered.".
- catalog alternative "Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement. English".
- catalog contributor b3931138.
- catalog contributor b3931139.
- catalog coverage "Algeria Fiction.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Today. Women of Algiers in Their Apartment. The Woman Who Weeps -- Yesterday. There Is No Exile. The Dead Speak. Day of Ramadan. Nostalgia of the Horde -- Postface. Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound.".
- catalog description "Translated for the first time into English, this collection of short fiction by one of the leading writers of North Africa details the plight of Algerian women and raises far-reaching issues that speak to us all. Women of Algiers quickly sold out its first printing of 15,000 in France and was hugely popular in Italy, but the book was denounced in Algeria for its criticism of the postcolonial socialist regime, which denied and subjugated women even as it celebrated the liberation of men. It was the first work to do so openly. These stylistically innovative, lyrical stories address the cloistering of women, the implications of reticence, and the significance of language and its connection to oppression (Djebar calls official Arabic "an authoritarian language that is simultaneously the language of men"). Mixing newly written pieces with older ones, Djebar attempts "to bring the past into a dialogue with the present". The stories raise issues surrounding this passage from colonial to postcolonial culture - national literature, cultural authenticity, and the impact of war on both men and women. The book's title comes from a Delacroix painting that depicts a unique glimpse of the harem, an emblem of the dual violation of Algerian women, both colonial and gendered.".
- catalog extent "211 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Women of Algiers in their apartment.".
- catalog identifier "0813914027".
- catalog isFormatOf "Women of Algiers in their apartment.".
- catalog isPartOf "CARAF books".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog relation "Women of Algiers in their apartment.".
- catalog spatial "Algeria Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Algeria".
- catalog subject "843 20".
- catalog subject "PQ3989.2.D57 F413 1992".
- catalog subject "Women Algeria Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Today. Women of Algiers in Their Apartment. The Woman Who Weeps -- Yesterday. There Is No Exile. The Dead Speak. Day of Ramadan. Nostalgia of the Horde -- Postface. Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound.".
- catalog title "Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement. English".
- catalog title "Women of Algiers in their apartment / by Assia Djebar ; translated by Marjolijn de Jager ; afterword by Clarisse Zimra.".
- catalog type "Short stories. lcgft".
- catalog type "Short stories.".
- catalog type "text".