Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria

Index

227 index abortion, 79–80, 81 age and aging, 105–8, 203n14, 206n11 Ahmed, Sara, 178, 203n13 Aïcha (women’s group), 142 Albert Camus, Alger (Chaulet-Achour), 86–87 ‘‘Albert Camus and Falsehood’’ (colloquium ), 86 Algeria: censorship in, 5; children aborted in, 79–80; civil war in (1990s), 157–59, 211–12n8; departure from but not breaking with, 189–92; métissage rejected in, 179–80; oppression of women in, 131–35, 145–47, 208–9n1; others’ ignorance about, 186; risks of writing in, 46, 48–49, 56, 142; as territory, 73; women’s plight in, 52–54, 89, 180– 83; women’s rights in, 133–34; women’s voices excluded in, 165–69; women writers still living in (see Bey, Maïssa); writers killed in, 5. See also Algerian War of Independence; French-language women writers born in Algeria Algeria, as homeland: as always unfinished, 95; deterritorialization of, 145; as ‘‘incurable sickness,’’ 83; lack of, 151; narrator as foreigner in, 118; returning to, 141–45, 146–48, 175; ‘‘un-belonging for/in,’’ 96; writers haunted by, 147–48; writers without a place in, 84–85. See also mother and native land, depictions of Algeria, under French rule: ambiguous status of, 2; designation of domestic help in, 176–77, 212– 13n15; divisions of, 35–37, 61; erased in cultural civil war, 211–12n8; French vs. Algerian clothing and, 115–16; homes o√-limits in, 104, 202n9, 206n8; in-betweenness in, 104–5, 109–11, 206n9; as key to Bey’s life, 49–51; mixed marriages connected to, 120; names and naming under, 172; national fantasies in, 71; nose as evidence of Jewishness in, 206n9; o≈cial documents of, 159– 60; recovering what was lost in, 171– 74; resistance to, 51; sexual hostility and inappropriate touching in, 104– 5; ‘‘social health’’ in, 104; state and school linked in, 64–65, 201–2n6; trauma in, 164–65. See also citizens and citizenship; colonialism; French culture; French educational system; French language Algériances, 102–5, 189–90 Algerian War of Independence (1954– 62): ambiguities and dilemmas of, 153–56; attempts to repair wrongs on both sides of, 151; disruptions of birth in, 170, 211n6; erasure in cultural civil war, 211–12n8; o≈cial documents of, 159–60; reconstituting nation in aftermath of, 170–71, 173; traces of, 17–18; unrecognized in France, 157. See also harkis Al-Kassim, Dina, 18 alterity, concept of, 46. See also others and otherness amour, la fantasia, L’ (Fantasia) 228 Index amour, la fantasia, L’ (cont.) (Djebar): father and daughter’s walk to school, 113, 169; father figure in, 113–15, 117, 200n3; French homes o√limits in, 202n9; on languages, 111–12, 117–18; multiple women’s voices in, 167, 168; other as witness in, 32–33; paratextual apparatus needed in translation , 186–87; ruptures intimes in, 129–31, 135–36, 137; space of outdoors in, 138; suicide attempt in, 32, 33–35, 39–40; witnessing one’s own life in, 31–32; on writing, 180 Amour Autre, L’ (term), 192–93 Antelme, Robert, 6–7 anti-Semitism: homes o√-limits due to, 105, 206n8; struggles against, 104, 206n9 Apter, Emily, 184–85 Arabic language: banned, 50, 201n5; Farkha (bastard) in, 169; as father’s language, 116–17; French attitudes toward names in, 176–77; handwritten , 18; ‘‘I’’ not used in (dialectical), 135–36, 208n5; as mother’s language, 52, 208n4; spoken vs. classical, 208n4; voices of women in, 115 Arabization, 51, 52, 182 Arabs: attitudes in France toward, 144; definition of, 51–52; naming traditions of, 171–72; rejecting stereotypes of Arab women, 53–54; U.S. treatment of, 152 Arc, L’ (journal), 188 Aristotle, 16, 199n11 Assia Djebar (Hiddleston), 73, 92 Augustine, Saint, 31, 88–89 auto-bio-calligraphy, 18 autobiographical inclusions: approach to, 19, 27; colonialism’s e√ects on, 49–51; confession and testimony in, 27–31; critique of global order linked to, 210n5; in every text, 8, 27, 197n1; experiences of many expressed through, 1–3; as foreigner, 118–19; horrible accident in, 35–37, 198n6; intertextual connections in, 47–49; memory and forgetting in, 140–41; other and all others written in, 55– 56; the other as witness in, 32–33; ‘‘she’’ and ‘‘I’’ in, 80–81; solidarity and singularity in, 56–57; suicide attempt in, 32, 33–35, 39–40; visceral e√ects of, 135–36; writing of everything , despite condemnation, 43–45, 199n13, 199–200n14. See also testimony ; witnesses autobiography: constructed from evoked or suppressed memory...