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Abstract / Summary

In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence—both their own and Algeria's.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Assia Djebar, 1936-2015

Publisher

Heinemann

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Copyright Message

Copyright @ 1993 by Heinemann

Content Type

Book

Duration

0 sec

Format

Text

Original Publication Date

1985

Page Count

251

Publication Year

1993

Publisher

Heinemann

Place Published / Released

Portsmouth, NH

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Family, Women and War, Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962, Mujer y Familia, Mulher e Família, Mujer y Guerra, Mulher e Guerra, Francia, França, Argelia, Argélia, France, Algeria, Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Equal Rights for Women, Empire and Family Life, Nationalism and Independence Movements, French, Algerians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)

Topic

Equal Rights for Women, Empire and Family Life, Nationalism and Independence Movements

Translator

Dorothy S. Blair, fl. 1993

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Familia, Mulher e Família, Mujer y Guerra, Mulher e Guerra, Francia, França, Argelia, Argélia