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University of Virginia Press Arabic as a Secret Song: Nine Narratives from the Life of an Exiled Artist (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

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About the Author Leïla Sebbar is a prolific author whose works include essays, short fiction, plays, and film scripts, as well as the novels The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961; Silence on the Shores; and Shérazade, Missing: Age 17, dark curly hair, green eyes, among others. Born in Algeria, she lives and teaches in Paris, France. Skyler Artes works as a translator and has lectured at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and the University of Denver, USA.Mildred Mortimer is Professor Emerita of French and French African Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Product Description The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume. Written between 1978 and 2006, they trace a journey that began in Aflou, Algeria, where her father ran a schoolhouse, and continued to France, where Sebbar traveled, alone, as a graduate student before eventually realizing her powerful creative vision.The pieces collected in this book capture an array of experiences, sensations, and sentiments surrounding the French colonial presence in Algeria and offer an intimate and prismatic reflection on Sebbar’s bicultural upbringing as the child of an Algerian father and French mother. Sebbar offers an unflinching portrait of her original disconnection from her father’s Arabic language and culture; she goes on to describe her struggle to revive a cultural heritage that her family had deliberately obscured and translate into French the vibrant yet muted Arabic of her father and of Algeria. Looking back from numerous vantage points throughout her life, she presents the complicated and divisive dynamics of being raised ""between two shores""--the colonized and the colonizer. Review Leïla Sebbar is a renowned novelist who merits a place alongside other acclaimed French-language writers of North African heritage such as Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, and Mohammed Dib. Arabic as a Secret Song is a fascinating collection of meditations on Sebbar's own relationship with the two languages she associates with her parents--the Arabic of her father and the French of her mother. --Patricia Geesey, University of North Florida, translator of Land and Blood by Mouloud FeraounSebbar's Arabic as a Secret Song is a dense, rich, very well-written, and poetic text.... a thought-provoking recapitulation and complex reflection on the motivations and themes that underlie her fictional and autobiographical writings. --author of Mediterranean StudiesThe volume offers poignant insights into Sebbar's sense of loss and fractured cultural identity, an intimacy that pervades the exile's personal and public critical trajectory. --author of Choice

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Brand: University of Virginia Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813937566
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 June 2015
Listed Since: 19 November 2014

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