Research Catalog

Title

Arabic as a secret song / Leïla Sebbar ; translated by Skyler Artes ; afterword by Mildred Mortimer.

Author

Sebbar, Leïla.

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Artes, Skyler

Description

108 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

CARAF books: Caribbean and African literature translated from French

Uniform Title

• Arabe comme un chant secret. English
• CARAF books.

Alternative Title

Arabe comme un chant secret.

Subjects

• Sebbar, Leïla
• Sebbar, Leïla > Family
• Authors, French > 20th century > Biography
• Authors, Algerian > 20th century > Biography
• Algerians > France > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109).

Contents

If I Speak My Mother's Language -- If I Do Not Speak My Father's Language -- My Father's Body in My Mother's Language -- The Mothers of My Father's People in My Mother's Language -- The Silence of My Father's Language, Arabic -- The Return of the Absent One -- To Hear Arabic as a Sacred Song -- I Write of Arabic, Foreign at Home, and of God, Foreign at Home -- I Write the Imaginary Arab, My Father.

Call Number

JFD 15-1289

ISBN

• 9780813937564 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0813937566 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780813937571 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813937574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780813937588 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014045922

OCLC

893452423

Author

Sebbar, Leïla.

Title

Arabic as a secret song / Leïla Sebbar ; translated by Skyler Artes ; afterword by Mildred Mortimer.

Publisher

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

CARAF books: Caribbean and African literature translated from French

CARAF books.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109).

Added Author

Artes, Skyler, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-1289