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- Title
Veiled Truth: Reading Assia Djebar from the Outside.
- Authors
Morgan, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The article analyzes the works of Algerian writer Assia Djebar. Veiling, in Algerian history and in the work of Djebar, who began her academic career as an historian, is like a palimpsest,a rich and complex "text" on which multiple messages are inscribed, overlaid, and intertwined. It is an issue that invites outsiders to overcome their estrangement from the other by recognizing estrangement from self particularly as a study of veiling reveals how persons separate themselves from intimate exchange. Djebar's writing provides a provocative location of estrangement, a place where national history, personal history, and aesthetic recreation converge.
- Subjects
DJEBAR, Assia, 1936-2015; WOMEN authors; ALGERIANS; SOCIAL alienation; AESTHETICS; CHRISTIANS
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2002, Vol 51, Issue 4, p603
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833310205100407