Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria

by Jane Hiddleston

Book Overview

For more than fifty years, Assia Djebar, former Silver Chair of French at New York University and winner of the Neustadt Prize for Contribution to World Literature, used the tools of poetry, fiction, drama and film to vividly portray the world of Muslim women in all its complexity. In the process, she became one of the most important figures in North African literature. In Assia Djebar, Jane Hiddleston traces Djebar's development as a writer against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846316855
• ISBN13: 9781846316852
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"