Algerian White: A Narrative

By Assia Djebar

Book Overview

Translated by David Kelley and Marjolijn de Jager

In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves an epic tapestry out of her intimate connection to a group of Algerian writers and intellectuals whose lives were cut short since since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M'Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist--the beloved friends to whom she dedicates the book--as well as Albert Camus. She records the horrors of her country's civil wars and untangles the complex political and social issues that led to the long trail of the blood. This unique book grows from conversations remembered and imagined, meditations on her fallen literary peers and predecessors. Yet for Djebar, they cannot be silenced. They continue to tell stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen. This cultural and political history of Algeria's cross-cultural reality and its fight against colonization is infused with the oral tradition of Djebar's Berber roots.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583225161
• ISBN13: 9781583225165
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

glad to have bought it

I bought this book hoping to find info about the algerian writers mentioned on the back cover, what I found was more interesting.. detailed info about the turbulance in algeria, personal experiences,stories and very important history of a sister country our arab jounalism failed to report and/or bring to us. I was happy to have bought the book.