ISBN: 9780231172561
Editorial: Columbia
Año de edición: 2015
N° Paginas: 232
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on the very basis of dissensus.In a rare comparison of these authors' writings,Algerian Imprints shows how Cixous and Djebar consistently reclaim for ethical and political purposes the demarcations and dislocations emphasized in their fictions. Their works affirm the chance for thinking afforded by marginalization and exclusion and delineate political ways of preserving a space for difference informed by expropriation and nonbelonging. Cixous's inquiry is steeped in her formative encounter with the grudging integration of the Jews in French Algeria, while Djebar's narratives concern the colonial separation of "French" and "Arab," self and other. Yet both authors elaborate strategies to address inequality and injustice without resorting to tropes of victimization, challenging and transforming the understanding of the history and legacy of colonized space. Críticas A major contribution to contemporary scholarship on francophone women writers, and Weltman-Aron is to be congratulated on having presented an original, articulate, thoughtful, and provocative study.--Tulsa Studies in Women's LiteratureCogently structured and skillfully supported by influential theoretical sources, Algerian Imprints is a substantive work that will prove to be a valuable resource for scholars in the field of gender studies, postcolonialism, francophone literature, and enthusiasts alike.--Studies in 20th and 21st Century LiteratureScholarly and an excellent read.... Highly recommended.--ChoiceBrilliantly argued and beautifully written,Algerian Imprints is a powerful and daring book that provides a radical rethinking of the work of two major writers. Weltman-Aron's subtle and minutely detailed analysis helps us reconfigure and conceptualize the concepts that are at the heart of their aesthetics and political views. This book is the first to unravel the complex relationships that Cixous and Djebar have developed between body and language, writing and gender, and, above all, the connections between literary theory and the history of postcolonial relations between Algeria and France.--Réda Bensmaïa, Brown UniversityCompellingly argued,Algerian Imprints brings together in novel ways two leading francophone writers, Hélène Cixous and Assia Djebar. Working at the intersection of literature, history, and theory, Brigitte Weltman-Aron shows convincingly how these women write from their marginal positions to create a politics of dissensus--Verena Conley, Harvard UniversityThis first book-length comparative study of Cixous and Djebar is well worth a read.--Anne Donadey "The French Review "The advantage ofAlgerian Imprints is that it activates and animates the texts of two important contemporary female Francophone authors in favor of serious reflections concerning their corporeal and scriptural 'origins, ' relations to language, questions of testimony and hospitality, and the sexual politics of resistance. This is a book that many, both scholars and students, will want to read.--David Wills, Brown UniversityWeltman-Aron draws on close reading and cogent theoretical sources to make a substantial and original reflection on the 'politics of memory' (Derrida), (un)veiling as a figure of both vision and blindness, and nonbelonging as a basis for a new understanding of community.--Marta Segarra, Universitat de Barcelona Biografía del autor Brigitte Weltman-Aron is associate professor of French at the University of Florida and the author of On Other Grounds: Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century England and France.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Weltman-Aron, Brigitte
- Editorial: Columbia
- N° Paginas: 232
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
