Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement

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book literary work short story collection

Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement is a landmark collection of short stories by Assia Djebar that explores the lives, voices, and historical silencing of Algerian women in the postcolonial era.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book ⓘ
literary work ⓘ
short story collection ⓘ
author Assia Djebar NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Algeria NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre feminist literature ⓘ
postcolonial literature ⓘ
short stories ⓘ
hasPart short story "Il n’y a pas d’exil" NERFINISHED ⓘ
short story "La femme en morceaux" NERFINISHED ⓘ
short story "La nuit de l’obscurité" NERFINISHED ⓘ
short story "La nuit du récit de Fatima" ⓘ
short story "Le corps de la jeune femme" NERFINISHED ⓘ
short story "Les morts parlent" ⓘ
title story "Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement" ⓘ
hasTranslation Women of Algiers in Their Apartment NERFINISHED ⓘ
inspiredBy painting "Femmes d’Alger" by Eugène Delacroix NERFINISHED ⓘ
literaryMovement Francophone literature ⓘ
Maghrebi literature ⓘ
literarySignificance key text in postcolonial Francophone canon ⓘ
landmark work of North African feminist writing ⓘ
mainSubject Algerian War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ
Algerian women ⓘ
female subjectivity ⓘ
historical silencing ⓘ
memory ⓘ
patriarchy ⓘ
postcolonial Algeria NERFINISHED ⓘ
narrativePerspective multiple female narrators ⓘ
narrativeTechnique fragmented narrative ⓘ
interweaving of past and present ⓘ
notableFor critique of both colonial and patriarchal oppression ⓘ
representation of Algerian women’s interior lives ⓘ
use of French to convey Algerian women’s experiences ⓘ
originalLanguage French ⓘ
setting Algeria NERFINISHED ⓘ
Algiers NERFINISHED ⓘ
theme colonialism and its aftermath ⓘ
gender and power ⓘ
intergenerational memory ⓘ
language and identity ⓘ
resistance ⓘ
seclusion and domestic space ⓘ
women’s voices ⓘ
timePeriod 20th century ⓘ
postcolonial era ⓘ
translatedInto English ⓘ
several other languages ⓘ

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Assia Djebar → notableWork → Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement ⓘ
Women of Algiers in their Apartment → originalTitle → Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement ⓘ