Revolution and Modernity
Assia Djebar's Les enfants du nouveau monde
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon Bigelow (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 13-27 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2003.34.2.13 |
| OpenAlex | W2323034139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
With the 1985 publication of her landmark novel L'amour, la fantasia, Algerian writer Assia Djebar moved into a position of increasing international visibility and critical attention. With its blending of history, autobiography, and fiction, this work would position Djebar alongside authors like Bessie Head (A Question of Power, 1974; Serowe, 1981) and Sara Suleri (Meatless Days, 1989) as a lucid critic of gender, history, and subjectivity in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Djebar's earliest works, however, in a career that stretches back to 1956, are rarely mentioned in recent critical debate. 1 Her wartime novel Les enfants du nouveau monde (1962)is nonetheless long overdue for critical revival, for it reveals an early moment in Djebar's evolving interests in the problem of subjectivity, during the period of anticolonial struggle. 2 My argument here is that while the novel in many ways takes part in the Weberian discourse of modernization that male francophone commentators frequently employed in their construction of an Algerian nationalism, the clear interest in female subjectivity within Les enfants finally leads the novel toward a more original, and prescient, vision of a revolutionary modernity
Art · Art history · Biography · Colonialism · Epistemology · Humanities · Literature · Modernity · Modernization theory · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Subjectivity · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Arab Women Arab Wars
The Politics of the Possible
Rewriting Writing
Disorienting the Subject in Djebar's L'Amour, la Fantasia
Women's Writing between Two Algerian Wars
Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse
Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
Histoire de l'Algerie contemporaine
In My Father's House
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Acting Bits/Identity Talk
Critical Fanonism
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |