Research Catalog

Title

Assia Djebar : in dialogue with feminisms / Priscilla Ringrose.

Author

Ringrose, Priscilla (Priscilla Marie)

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

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Details

Description

266 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In Assia Djebar: In Dialogue with Feminisms, Priscilla Ringrose uncovers the mechanisms of Djebar's revisionary feminism and examines the echoes and dissonances between what Djebar terms her "own kind of feminism" and the thinking of French and Arab feminists such as Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva, Mernissi and Ahmed."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Francopolyphonies ; 3

Uniform Title

Francopolyphonies 3.

Alternative Title

In dialogue with feminisms

Subject

• Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 > Criticism and interpretation
• Feminism in literature
• Feminism and literature
• Muslim women in literature
• Women in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-266).

Language (note)

• In English with quoted text in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Dialogue spaces -- A sister to Sagan? -- Approaches to Djebar's oeuvre -- Novelistic choices and theoretical perspectives -- Voices searching amongst open graves -- Matches made in heaven? -- In dialogue with Kristeva : L'amour, la fantasia. Ode to Beethoven -- Identity and the semiotic continuum -- Language as signifying process -- A Kristevan model -- The incredible mobility of being -- The symbolic mode : historical orders and disorders -- The symbolic mode : autobiographical ambiguities -- The semiotic mode : desire in "Sistre" -- Semiotic and symbolic : a permanent alternation? -- In dialogue with Cixous : Vaste est la prison. Patriarchal prison-houses -- Cixous and the patriarchal value-system -- A subject is at least a thousand people -- Writing's silent voice -- The problem of segregation : all in a word -- Looking for a way out -- Ecriture des femmes/Ecriture féminine -- A sisterhood of suffering -- The blood-streams of writing -- In dialogue with Irigaray : Ombre sultane. The repressed maternal-feminine -- The absent sex : Irigaray and symbolic exclusion -- A double take on the novel -- Moving away from a masculine economy of relations -- Towards a feminine economy of relations -- Maternal restoration or paternal revenge? -- In dialogue with feminisms : Loin de Médine. The forgotten revolution -- The blank page -- Narrating women -- Woman as subject -- The Prophet : the real subject or the other subject? -- Islam's empowered heiresses -- Ideological collision? -- Strategies of feminist historical scholarship -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9042017392
• 9789042017399

OCLC

• 65217070
• SCSB-10544242

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library