In the following review, Mortimer commends Djebar's presentation of contrasting women in Ombre sultane.
On an autumn day in the early 1940's, Assia Djebar's father, a schooltea...
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In the following essay, Ascarza-Wégimont discusses a poetical refrain in Ombre sultane that suggests the realization of female self-expression and liberation.
[u]nder the bed where the coupl...
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In the following essay, Accad provides an overview of Djebar's major works and thematic concerns—ranging from La soif to Le blanc de l'Algérie—linking the progressio...
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In the following essay, Gracki explores the overlapping elements of autobiography and history in L'amour, la fantasia, Ombre sultane, Le blanc de l'Algérie, and Vaste est la priso...
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In the following essay, Mortimer examines Djebar's effort to recast Algerian women as independent beings who see and make themselves publicly visible in defiance of Maghrebian patriarchy and Fr...
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In the following review, Prendergast commends Djebar's cross-cultural juxtaposition of historical, cultural, and religious dualities in Vaste est la prison.
In the early nineteenth century (...
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In the following essay, Erickson discusses the juxtaposition of written French language and oral Arabic language in L'amour, la fantasia as a narrative and metaphorical device for breaking the ...
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In the following essay, Geesey examines Djebar's metafictional, feminist rereading of early Islamic history in Loin de Médine, drawing attention to the novel's multiple female voi...
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In the following essay, Guyot-Bender draws attention to positive aspects of female domesticity in L'amour, la fantasia, contending that cloistered Algerian women are shown to derive a sense of ...
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In the following essay, Mortimer argues that Djebar's juxtaposition of autobiography, fiction, and history in L'amour, la fantasia, Ombre sultane, and Vaste est la prison effectively cha...
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In the following essay, Erickson discusses the depiction of Algeria's post-liberation unrest and fratricidal violence in Le blanc de l'Algérie, noting the connotations of the Fren...
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In the following excerpt, Williams compliments Djebar's portrayal of female suffering and rebellion in A Sister to Scheherazade.
Both Assia Djebar and Nawal El Saadawi, in seeking to evoke t...
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In the following essay, Donadey provides a linguistic analysis of Arabic words and phrases in Djebar's fiction, most notably in L'amour, la fantasia, Ombre sultane, and Vaste est la pris...
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In the following excerpt, Fielder discusses the problem of historical representation and fictionalized accounts of imperial conquest, as illustrated by Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia and ...
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In the following review, Hoft-March finds shortcomings in the disjointed and unresolved narrative threads of Les nuits de Strasbourg.
Les nuits de Strasbourg distances itself from the author'...
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In the following review, Mortimer notes that So Vast the Prison embodies Djebar's career-long thematic preoccupations, particularly the efforts of Algerian women to free themselves of patriarch...
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In the following review, Murphy commends the intellectual and aesthetic depth of So Vast the Prison.
The fragmented narrative of So Vast the Prison offers spaces of light—views between the b...
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In the following essay, von Rosk draws upon French postcolonial theory to elucidate Djebar's efforts in Fantasia to recover the voice of Algerian women while writing in French, the masculine la...
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In the following essay, Vialet examines how Djebar's “Algerian Quartet” works to redefine the boundaries of literature that is written “l'entre-deux-langues”,...
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In the following essay, Bigelow discusses how Djebar's subjective feminine perspective in Les enfants du nouveau monde creates a “vision of revolutionary modernity.”
With the 1...
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In the following review, Mortimer praises Djebar's juxtaposition of traditional and modern women in Ombre sultane.
Since her debut in 1957 the novelist Assia Djebar has focused on Algeria&#x...
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In the following excerpt, Hill offers a positive assessment of Djebar's blend of history and memoir in Fantasia.
It is a platitude among Algerians of a certain age that the relationship betw...
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In the following review of Loin de Médine, Accad commends Djebar's ambition but finds shortcomings in the work's problematic position between paean and revision.
Assia Djebar, ...
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In the following excerpt, Green examines Djebar's use of history, autobiography, and narrative disjunction in L'amour, la fantasia as a mode of reinterpreting Algerian colonial experienc...
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In the following review, Bruner discusses the structure and thematic concerns of Women of Algiers in Their Apartment.
Assia Djebar (b. 1936) has long been recognized in the French-speaking world fo...
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In the following review, Sethi offers a favorable assessment of Djebar's feminist themes and narrative techniques in Women of Algiers in Their Apartment.
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment ...
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In the following essay, Ghaussy examines the French feminist concept of “écriture féminine” in Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, in which Djebar underscores the subjugation ...
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Critical Review by Mildred Mortimer
