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May 31, Erika Higbee rated it it was amazing. I don’t know if it is because it was originally written in French always a wonder when not reading in the original languageor because I only knew a smattering of Algerian history going in, thanks to Wikipedia.
Assia Djebar wants you to write a term paper about her book. Try as she might, Djebar cannot escape colonial aesthetic and evaluative standards. In short, this indicated to me that the translation was either pretty bad, or that the book itself was pretty bad. I definitely got a feel for the constant turmoil of the area, from the French invasion in up until their war for independence in the s and 60s.
L’Amour, La fantasia, Assia Djebar
Some of the pi Closer to 3. Discusses the strength and importance of the role of women in this time of revolution and struggle.
Reading it, I was grasping at straws, struggling to continue reading; each page turned a motivation to keep on going. Some of the pieces are very lush and beautiful, and others seem to have an almost clinical detachment, even when it is describing a fearless woman standing up to the French, for example.
This made for a very frustrating read at times, but in the end the pieces all came together like a mosaic, all the more beautiful and intriguing for the confusion and diversity of its materials. Algeria’s colonization- and the fragmentation of its history, told from both oral stories and written reports from Algerians, french soldiers, and observers. Feb 20, Hadrian rated it liked it Shelves: Broadly, the text juxtaposes the violence of Algerian colonization, both physical and intellectual, with the violence of the harem.
It is, perhaps, best described as a meditation on history Algeria’s in this casealienation and women based on sources from both the French and native sides of Algeria’s recent, tragic history, including the author’s own experiences she fought in the last rebellion that ended in Algeria’s independence.
She published her first four novels in France, between and I understand the need to abrogate and appropriate imperial structures but wonder if it can be less painful. Searching for words and so dream no more, wait no longer.
Yes, in spite of the tumult of my people all around, I already hear, even before it arises and pierces the harsh sky, I head the death cry in the Fantasia. Do I even understand it? Djebar weaves a nice correspondence between this land teeming with contradictory traditions and the Muslim women, full of conflicting emotions about their lives, their bodies, and their relationships with men.
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
In the last half of the book, where the sections follow one another like movements in a piece of chamber music, enfolding themes and variations, she will introduce several different “I” voices—resistance fighters, exiles, torture victims in the last wars against the French—any one of which might have been her as a young woman, but one assumes were not.
In short, this indicated to me that the translation was either pretty bad, or debar A book that I can honestly say I hated, from the first page to the very last one. Is the one who played with her cousins in the opening chapter the same one who later got married in Paris? In each chapter, it required amor to discover the identity of the narrator. amord
From what nocturnal reef of pleasure did I manage to wrest this truth? Djebar also writes about her own childhood in the s as well as tales of the painful aftermath of the independence for various widows and children.
An Algerian Cavalcade is one of her most famous novels for good reason; Djebar artfully addresses themes such as the written, formal language of French versus the oral traditions of Berber tribes, the colonized Algerians versus the French colonizers, self versus the other, and cultural traditions – such as women wearing veils and staying indoors- versus self expression and emancipation.
She adopted the pen name Assia Djebar when her first novel, La Soif Hunger was published inin France where she was studying at the Sorbonne. It drains off all the scoriae of the past.
Rejecting all lyricism, turning my back on high-flown language; every metaphor seems a wretched ruse, an approximation and a weakness.
Dec 24, Erin W rated it it was ok Shelves: Once I had discovered the meaning of the words—those same words that are revealed to the unveiled body—I cut myself adrift. It is not a memoir or autobiography. But with privilege came guilt and.
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It is deeply political and concerned with identity of the woman who has been raised under French rule, freed from the harem by learning French and having a French education, but who is also deeply nationalistic. Djebar passed earlier this month, so I don’t know if it was ever completed. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. I believe she wanted her stories to reach a wider audience, particularly in France where she wished to remind readers of France’s brutal treatment of her people in the midth century and later during the bloody war in independence,as well as France’s attempted absorption of the Algerian culture into its own.
L’AMOUR, LA FANTASIA D’ASSIA DJEBAR : De l’autobiographie à la fiction
She gives birth to a stillborn son and we feel her desperation as she senses that she no longer has a land in which to bury him. The policeman and his family suddenly seemed like transient ghosts in this locality, whereas these images, these objects became the true inhabitants of the place! Assia Djebar is born. Highly challenging; a assua letter to Algeria and to the women of that country. It is not a history book. It’s a whole saga of a country’s centuries-long struggle to seize and maintin its identity and unique character despite its tragedy-laced history.
Just be prepared to think.