Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical
writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the
Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and AbdelkZbir 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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