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Article: Assia Djebar--Out of Algeria.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2008
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Assia Djebar--Out of Algeria. By JANE HIDDLESTON. (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 6) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2006. vi+ 192 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-84631-031-7.
Jane Hiddleston's Assia Djebar--Out of Algeria is an impressive overview of the literary output of one of Algeria's most prolific writers. She traces the development of Djebar's work from its earliest stages to her most recent publications, and this study is the first of its kind to devote itself entirely to the 'changing trajectory' (pp. 10-11) of Djebar's fiction.
This study explores the 'expatriation' (p. 1) that the author claims is ever-present in ...