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Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women's Writing - Heuristic Implications of the Recto-Verso Effect (Hardcover)
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Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women's Writing - Heuristic Implications of the Recto-Verso Effect (Hardcover)
Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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Total price: R2,370
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The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the
primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and
Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend
beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page-or in
this case, the cover, (recto) controls what we read on the
reverse-in this case, the text itself (verso). Using theories of
the paratext, including those of Gerard Genette and Jonathan Gray,
this book determines how four dominant iconographies used on the
covers of Algerian women's writing - Orientalist art, the veil, the
desert, and the author portrait - work with and against the texts
they represent. These images have an impact on the initial
reception of the book, but beyond that, book covers determine how
both the informed and uninformed reader categorize and interpret
francophone Algerian women's writing in France and beyond. As the
covers help to sell the works, they also produce messages,
represented via their iconographies that embed themselves into the
texts. A sometimes explicit, and at the very least, implicit dialog
between the visual paratextual representation and the written
textual one is created: a dialog that extends beyond the life of
the physical book to a sort of canonical paradigm for reading these
authors' works. Thus, even if the cover image appears ephemeral, it
never truly disappears. Its powerful control over critical
reception and, ultimately, interpretation of francophone Algerian
women's writing remains.
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