Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War
Title | Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | Mortimer, Mildred P. |
Number of Pages | 284 |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
City | Charlottesville, VA |
Abstract | In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of the Algerian War, Mildred Mortimer excavates and explores the role of women’s individual and collective memory in recording events of the violent anticolonial conflict. Presenting close readings of published works spanning five decades—from Assia Djebar’s 1962 Children of the New World to Zohra Drif’s 2014 Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter— Women Fight, Women Write traces stylistic and material transformations in Algerian women’s writings as it reveals evolving attitudes toward memory, trauma, historical objectivity, and women’s political empowerment. Refuting the stale binary of men in battle, women at home, these testimonial texts let women lay claim to the Algerian War story as participants and also as chroniclers through fiction, historical studies, and memoir. |
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