Time Signatures

Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, Hélène Cixous, and Abdelkébir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a "theme" pulsing throughout these writers' works, but also as a means of comprehending their unique, improvisational writing styles, Alison Rice offers readers a new and beautifully constructed way of reading these authors' texts by demonstrating that the form adopted to address topics of concern is as significant as the content itself. The voice of Jacques Derrida intermingles with the timbres of these three writers in fruitful contrapuntal passages, serving as a source of inspiration for conceptualizing language and communicating the self in an unprecedented manner. Time Signatures demonstrates that these individuals write the "self" in French in ways influenced by sensitivities acquired during their early experiences in a multicultural, multilingual "colonial" environment in which their ears were trained, and their minds tuned, for translations to come.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-03-21
Mått163 x 228 x 27 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfter the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Antal sidor358
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739112908

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Chapter 1 Overture: Francophony? Legitimacy, Authenticity, and Integrity in French LiteratureChapter 2 NameStakes: Putting the Proper Name into Textual PlayPart 3 Assia DjebarChapter 4 Religio: Re-thinking and Re-linking Cultural and Religious TraditionChapter 5 Histoire à Contretemps: Syncopated Histories: Writing on the Off-BeatPart 6 Hélène CixousChapter 7 Settling the Musical Score: Orality, Rhythm, and Repetition in Writing WrongsChapter 8 Prelude to a Fugue, Out of North Africa: Uprooting and Rerouting in Autobiographical FictionPart 9 Abdelkébir KhatibiChapter 10 French Transcriptions, French Transpositions: Transportation, Transnation, and TransliterationChapter 11 Silence and Schizophrenia: Subtle Slips of the TongueChapter 12 Nothing to Declare: Crossing the Border from Confession to Testimony