Women--Social conditions, Women--Algeria--Social conditions--Fiction, Muslim women, Muslim women--Fiction, PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999, 843
A novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an... Show moreA novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an affair with a student. The author, who lives in exile, is an Algerian writing under a pseudonym and plays the contradictions of her heroine's existence against the bloody carnage of Carthage, a great civilization to which the Berbers were once compared. The Silence of Writing -- What is Erased in the Heart -- The Siesta -- The Face -- Space, Darkness -- The Dance -- The Absence -- Before, After -- The Goodbye -- Erased in Stone -- The Slave in Tunis -- The Renegade Count -- The Archeologist Lord -- Destruction -- The Secret -- The Stele and the Flames -- The Deported Writer -- Abalessa -- A Silent Desire -- "Fugitive Without Knowing it" -- Arable Woman I -- Of the Mother as Traveler -- Arable Woman II -- Of the Grandmother as a Young Bride -- Arable Woman III -- Of the Mother as Little Girl -- Arable Woman IV -- Of the Narrator in the French Night -- Arable Woman v -- Of the Narrator as an Adolescent -- Arable Woman VI -- Of Desire and its Desert -- Arable Woman VII -- Shadows of Separation -- The Blood of Writing -- Yasmina -- The Blood of Writing--Final. Assia Djebar ; translated by Betsy Wing. Main Heritage Compact General PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999 Reference Item-ID: i16875862 BIB-ID: 1578884 Translated from the French. Show less