Algerian White: A Narrative

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In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently because the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M’Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist; in addition to Albert Camus. In Algerian White, Djebar finds a option to meld the non-public and the political by describing in intimate detail the general days and hours of these and other Algerian women and men, many of whom were murdered merely because they were teachers, or writers, or students. Yet, for Djebar, they can’t be silenced. They continue to inform stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen. Both fiction and memoir, Algerian White describes with unerring accuracy the lives and deaths of the ones whose contributions were cut short, after which probes even deeper into the meaning of friendship through imagined conversations and ghostly visitations.

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