9780813937571: Arabic As a Secret Song
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ISBN 10 : 0813937574 ISBN 13 : 9780813937571
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2015

Synopsis

The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume. Written between 1978 and 2006, they trace a journey that began in Aflou, Algeria, where her father ran a schoolhouse, and continued to France, where Sebbar traveled, alone, as a graduate student before eventually realizing her powerful creative vision.

The pieces collected in this book capture an array of experiences, sensations, and sentiments surrounding the French colonial presence in Algeria and offer an intimate and prismatic reflection on Sebbar's bicultural upbringing as the child of an Algerian father and French mother. Sebbar paints an unflinching portrait of her original disconnection from her father's Arabic language and culture, depicting her struggle to revive a cultural heritage that her family had deliberately obscured and to convey the vibrant yet muted Arabic of her father and of Algeria. Looking back from numerous vantage points throughout her life, she presents the complicated and divisive dynamics of being raised "between two shores"--the colonized and the colonizer.

CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

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À propos de l?auteur

Skyler Artes, Ph.D is the translator of Arabic as a Secret Song by Leïla Sebbar (University of Virginia Press, 2015) and I Die By This Country by Fawzia Zouari (University of Virginia Press, 2018), both part of CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French.

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Éditeur
University of Virginia Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813937574
ISBN 13 
9780813937571
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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