Research Catalog

Title

North African writing / selected, translated, and with an introduction by Len Ortzen.

Publication

London : Heinemann Educational, 1970.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ortzen, Len

Description

[7], 134 pages; 19 cm

Summary

One of the success stories of British publishing in the sixties, Heinemann's African Writers Series continues to go from strength to strength. "A.W.S." began in 1963 with the publication of Chinua Achebe's first novels; now, seven years later, it already includes seventy-five titles and has been of enormous service to teachers and students of African literature. North African Writing is strong enough to stand beside any of these earlier titles, and performs the invaluable function of making available some first-rate writing from Morocco and Algeria which Anglo- phone readers would otherwise find hard to obtain. The nine writers included here have all been brought up as Muslims and write in French; all, except Assia Djebar, are men; all are more or less conscious of the conflicts be- tween their Arab origins and their French education or aspirations: as the editor puts it, they are aware of "belonging at once to their own people and to French civilization, and obviously feel the tension in their blood and bones." Such contradictions are, it is true, also found in writers from other parts of Africa: a metropolitan language and religion clashing with the linguistic and spiritual rhythms of an African upbringing, as in Okot p'Bitek's magnificent Song of Lawino, the best work to emerge from East Africa. These facts, the clichés of black or white criticism of African literature, have already been sufficiently documented, although the thesis-compiler will dis- cover further evidence of them in North African Writing. -- http://www.jstor.org (Oct. 5, 2016).

Series Statement

African writers series ; 73

Uniform Title

African writers series ; 73.

Subject

• Johannes Stobaeus ca. 5. Jh
• Andrae, A
• North African fiction (French) > Translations into English
• 18.26 French literature outside Europe
• Manners and customs
• North African fiction (French)
• Französisch
• Literatur
• French fiction > 20th century
• Africa, North > Social life and customs > Fiction
• North Africa
• Maghreb
• Algeria
• Morocco
• Tunisia

Genre/Form

• Fictional Work
• Fiction.
• Translations.
• Translations (form)
• Anthologies (form)
• Stories (texts)
• Romans.

Note

• Label mounted on t.p.: Humanities Press, New York.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [132]-134.

Contents

The provider of all good gifts ; The end ; Naema, whereabouts unknown / Mohammed Dib -- Four trunks ; The remnants / Driss Chraibi -- Honour of a drunkard / Hacène Farouk Zehar -- The earthenware jar / Ahmed Sefrioui -- An episode from Le Sommeil de Juste / Mouloud Mammeri -- An episode from Les Chemins qui Montent / Mouloud Feraoun -- A chapter from Les Impatients / Assia Djebar -- Extracts from Je t'offrirai une Gazelle / Malek Haddad -- Extracts from Le Polygone Étoilé / Kateb Yacine.

ISBN

• 0435900730
• 9780435900731

LCCN

71475404

OCLC

• ocm00082807
• 82807
• SCSB-9474302

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library