Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria

Contents

contents Acknowledgments / ix Introduction. The Witness Stand: Where the Truth Lies / 1 part i. the autobiographical springboard 1 Le moi à plusieurs reprises: From Confession to Testimony in the Autobiographical Writings of Hélène Cixous and Assia Djebar / 27 2 La singularité de l’altérité: Self-Portraiture and the Other in Maïssa Bey / 46 part ii. takeoff points 3 La terre maternelle: Algeria and the Mother in the Work of Marie Cardinal, Hélène Cixous, and Assia Djebar / 61 4 ‘‘La célébration d’une terre-mère’’: Albert Camus and Algeria according to Maïssa Bey and Assia Djebar / 86 part iii. embodiments 5 Écrire les maux: Hélène Cixous and Writing the Body over Time / 99 6 Sexualités et sensualités: Corporeal Configurations in the Work of Maïssa Bey, Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem, and Leïla Sebbar / 109 part iv. reverberations 7 Ruptures intimes: Sentimental Splitting in the Work of Assia Djebar / 129 8 Lourds retours: Coming Back to Algeria in Malika Mokeddem’s L’Interdite / 140 9 Fille de harki: Relating to the Father, Country, and Religion in the Writing of Zahia Rahmani / 151 10 Fabulation et imagination: Women, Nation, and Identification in Maïssa Bey’s Cette fille-là / 164 Conclusion. Mass in A Minor: Putting Algeria on the Map / 186 Notes / 197 Bibliography / 215 Index / 227 ...