Women Writing War: The Life-Writing of the Algerian Moudjahidate

TitleWomen Writing War: The Life-Writing of the Algerian Moudjahidate
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsKelley, Caroline E.
Number of Pages171
PublisherPeter Lang
CityOxford
Abstract

Women Writing War focuses on the life writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence. The author offers close readings of the memoir, testimonial, poetry and dreams by Jacqueline Guerround, Louisette Ighilahriz, Anna Gréki, Zhor Zerari and Myriam Ben, all of whom are documented moudjahidate and self-identify as Algerian. Reading their life-writing through the prism of theories of intertextuality, "minor" literature and the dialectics of memory and trauma, the author explores the relationship between writing, resistance and political action. Since they compose their work in the first-person voice in the context of the Algerian war, this book argues that their writing operates collectively as a form of counterdiscourse, opening up a textual space where experiences that were previously silenced or marginalized might be expressed.

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