About this Issue
Assia Djebar (1936–2015) — novelist, filmmaker, historian, and poet — was one of the most internationally recognized literary voices of Algeria and the Arab world. This special commemorative issue of CELAAN Review pays tribute to her life and work following her death in February 2015.
The issue gathers critical essays, remembrances, and reflections that examine the full arc of her oeuvre: from her early novels La Soif and Les Impatients, through her landmark Algerian Quartet (LAmour, la fantasia; Ombre sultane; Vaste est la prison; La Femme sans sépulture), to her late prose works and her historic election to the Académie française in 2005 — the first writer from the Maghreb to receive that honor.
Contributors explore Djebar's use of the French language as both instrument of liberation and site of cultural tension, her recovery of silenced women's voices in Algerian history, and her unique position at the crossroads of Arabic, Berber, and French literary traditions.
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