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Nedjma, Translated by Richard Howard

1991 Fiction
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Release : 1991
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Nedjma, Translated by Richard Howard by : Yacine Kateb

Download or read book Nedjma, Translated by Richard Howard written by Yacine Kateb. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is the symbol of Algeria. Kateb has crafted a novel that is the saga of the founding ancestors of Algeria through the conquest of Numidia by the Romans, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and French colonial conquest. Nedjma is symbolic of the rich and sometimes bloody past of Algeria, of its passions, of its tenderness; it is the epic story of a human quest for freedom and happiness.

The Almond

2006 Abused wives
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Release : 2006
Genre : Abused wives
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Book Rating : 846/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Almond by : Nedjma

Download or read book The Almond written by Nedjma. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My ambition is to give back to the women of my blood the power of speech confiscated by their men.' Badra is a young Berber girl from a North African village who is married off to an old man, and brutally raped on her wedding night. She thinks sexual pleasure exists only for men, until she escapes from her cruel husband to the city. Then she meets a handsome doctor who introduces her to a new world of sexual passion. L'AMANDE, written under a pseudonym by a North African woman living in France, reads like an erotic manifesto for modern women who want to break free from the repressive bonds of cultural tradition to unashamedly demand their right to pleasure.

Queer Nations

2000-04 Education
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Release : 2000-04
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 059/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Queer Nations by : Jarrod Hayes

Download or read book Queer Nations written by Jarrod Hayes. This book was released on 2000-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous populace. However, in the wake of World War II, when independence movements began to gain momentum in these French colonies, the dominant national discourses attempted to define national identities by exclusion. One rallying cry from the 1930s was "Islam is my religion, Arabic is my language, Algeria is my fatherland." In this incisive postcolonial study, Jarrod Hayes uses literary analysis to examine how Francophone novelists from the Maghreb engaged in a diametric nation-building project. Their works imagined a diverse nation peopled by those who were excluded by the dominant political discourses, especially those who did not conform to traditional sexual norms. By incorporating representations of marginal sexualities, sexual dissidence, and gender insubordination, Maghrebian novelists imagined an anticolonial struggle that would result in sexual liberation and envisioned nations that could be defined and developed inclusively.

Nedjma

1961 Algerian fiction (French)
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Release : 1961
Genre : Algerian fiction (French)
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Book Synopsis Nedjma by : Yacine Kateb

Download or read book Nedjma written by Yacine Kateb. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Representing Algerian Women

2019-01-14 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2019-01-14
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Representing Algerian Women by : Edward John Still

Download or read book Representing Algerian Women written by Edward John Still. This book was released on 2019-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945–1962), namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women through literature. The book initially argues that a masculine domination of public fields of representation in Algeria contributed to a postcolonial marginalization of women as public agents. However, it crucially also argues that the canonical writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually acknowledged their inability to articulate the experiences and subjectivity of the feminine Other and deployed a remarkable variety of formal and conceptual innovations in producing evocations of Algerian femininity that subvert the structural imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony. Though it does not shy from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, the book chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning representativity, a pessimism regarding the revolution's capacity to deliver change for women, and an omnipresent subversion of masculine subjectivity in its canonical texts.

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