Algerian White

In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post colonial civil society Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence They include three beloved friends of Djebar Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist M Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist as well as Albert Camus In Algerian White, Djebar finds a way to meld the personal and the political by describing in intimate detail the final days and hours of these and other Algerian men and women, many of whom were murdered merely because they were teachers, or writers, or students Yet, for Djebar, they cannot be silenced They continue to tell stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen Both fiction and memoir, Algerian White describes with unerring accuracy the lives and deaths of those whose contributions were cut short, and then probes even deeper into the meaning of friendship through imagined conversations and ghostly visitations. Read Algerian White – kino-fada.fr A very important book on algeria between the revolution and the civil war Beautifully and painfully written Greatly informative Djebar in general is a must read if you are interested in Berber culture, feminism, and Algerian studies Am working on reading all her works She is a filmmaker too.A wonderful book Exactly what Algeria needs, people that simply talk about what happened based on their own experiences I really appreciated the fact that the writer came back to the years before the independence, because it is related, the Algerian hi...This was beautiful.A meditation on death and loss, lives taken in the struggle for freedom against the colonial power, against fundamentalism A meditation on writing and all of its risks, language and all of its meanings, Algeria and all of its tragic complications.Love and loss, hope and despair.A travel through memories, like this one I took off for Kader s Oran, the city and its deepest depths, which he had sketched out for me we drove around the town, splattered with cries and laughter, This was beautiful.A meditation on death and loss, lives taken in the struggle for freedom against the colonial power, against fundamentalism A meditation on writing ...Eh I didn t care much for this book I read it for my French class While it was sad and eye opening to learn about all the authors and artists who were killed by the French during the Algerian movement for independence, I think it would have beenimpactful if I knew who all the authors she mentioned ...This was a sweet, sad, poetic book I want to read it again out loud.I loved the premise, but I could not handle the disjointed accretion of clauses and parentheticals, which produced such an arrhythmic flow of words that I stopped 30 pages into the book.I found this very heavy going Her style of writing did not make for an easy read particularly the first 50 or so pages which were a sort of stream of consciousness A very sad litany of deaths and so personally written but I found it very difficult to follow ...Having re read this book and many others on Algeria, I have had my misgivings for giving it such a strong recommendation earlier The problem with the book is not so much that the horror described the assassinations of so many Algerian intellectuals and democrats is not accurate What is missing is any sense of who was behind these killings The impression given in the book is that all this was the work of crazed Islamic fundamentalistsover the past decade however, it has become clearer t Having re read this book and many others on Algeria, I have had my misgivings for giving it such a strong recommendation earlier The problem with the book is not so much that th...Djebar s musings on the consequences of war in Algeria friends lost, ideals shattered are beautiful and tragic and magnificently expressed She has powerful insights on love and language I cried reading them.It was very hard for me to read this book I was in Algiers during the events taking place in the book Algiers.It brought back a lot of memories as well as enlightened me on many events behind the scenes that the regular citizens didn t know about..

• English
• 09 June 2017
Assia Djebar
• Paperback
• 240 pages
• 1583225161
• Assia Djebar
• Algerian White