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Arabic as a Secret Song - Nine Narratives from the Life of an Exiled Artist (Hardcover)
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Arabic as a Secret Song - Nine Narratives from the Life of an Exiled Artist (Hardcover)
Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
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The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leila Sebbar was born in
French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life
in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the
penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The
dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of
the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume. Written
between 1978 and 2006, they trace a journey that began in Aflou,
Algeria, where her father ran a schoolhouse, and continued to
France, where Sebbar traveled, alone, as a graduate student before
eventually realizing her powerful creative vision. The pieces
collected in this book capture an array of experiences, sensations,
and sentiments surrounding the French colonial presence in Algeria
and offer an intimate and prismatic reflection on Sebbar's
bicultural upbringing as the child of an Algerian father and French
mother. Sebbar offers an unflinching portrait of her original
disconnection from her father's Arabic language and culture; she
goes on to describe her struggle to revive a cultural heritage that
her family had deliberately obscured and translate into French the
vibrant yet muted Arabic of her father and of Algeria. Looking back
from numerous vantage points throughout her life, she presents the
complicated and divisive dynamics of being raised ""between two
shores""--the colonized and the colonizer.
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