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African American and Francophone Postcolonial Memory: Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and Assia Djebar's "La femme sans sépulture"

Donadey, Anne

Research in African literatures, 2008-09, Vol.39 (3), p.65-81 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

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Title:
African American and Francophone Postcolonial Memory: Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and Assia Djebar's "La femme sans sépulture"
Author: Donadey, Anne
Subjects: Africa ; African American literature ; African American studies ; African Americans ; African literature ; African studies ; African writers ; Algeria ; Algerian literature ; Algerians ; Allegory ; American history ; American literature ; Anthologies ; Authors, African ; Butler, Octavia E ; Comparative analysis ; Comparative studies ; Criticism and interpretation ; Djebar, Assia (1936-2015) ; Feminism ; Fiction ; Francophones ; Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) ; Historical text analysis ; Historiography ; Humanities ; Literary criticism ; Literature ; Memory ; Memory disorders ; Morrison, Toni (1931-2019) ; Narratives ; Novels ; Postcolonial literature ; Postcolonial societies ; Postcolonialism ; Slavery ; Torture ; Trauma ; U.S.A ; United States history ; Violence ; Violence against women ; Women ; Writers ; Writing
Is Part Of: Research in African literatures, 2008-09, Vol.39 (3), p.65-81
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Description: This comparative article brings to light parallels between African American and postcolonial Algerian fictional rewritings of history by two women writers, Octavia E. Butler and Assia Djebar. It focuses on the convergence of two related elements in Butler's "Kindred" and Djebar's "La femme sans sépulture": the need to resist historical amnesia and to speak the unspeakable. Both authors foreground the contemporary legacy of traumatic national pasts and the treatment of women's agency and desire under situations of extreme violence. Both texts enact similar tactics to represent the historical unrepresentable through fiction and to make feminist, womanist, and postcolonial interventions into the construction of the nation as imagined community.
Publisher: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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African American and Francophone Postcolonial Memory: Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and Assia Djebar's "La femme sans sépulture"

Donadey, Anne

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

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