Code: 04902360

Time Signatures

Name: Time Signatures
Brand: Lexington Books
SKU: 04902360
Price: 162.72 EUR
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Author: Alison Rice
ISBN: 9780739112892

by Alison Rice

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 358
Publisher: Lexington Books, 2006
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Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, Helene Cixous, and Abdelkebir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a "theme" pulsing throughout these writers' works, but also as a means of comprehending their unique, improvisational writing styles, Alison Rice offers readers a new and beautifully constructed way of reading these authors' texts by demonstrating that the form adopted to address topics of concern is as significant as the content itself. The voice of Jacques Derrida intermingles with the timbres of these three writers in fruitful contrapuntal passages, serving as a source of inspiration for conceptualizing language and communicating the self in an unprecedented manner. Time Signatures demonstrates that these individuals write the "self" in French in ways influenced by sensitivities acquired during their early experiences in a multicultural, multilingual "colonial" environment in which their ears were trained, and their minds tuned, for translations to come.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

162.72 €

Full title: Time Signatures
Subtitle: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb
Author: Alison Rice
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 358
EAN: 9780739112892
ISBN: 0739112899
ID: 04902360
Publisher: Lexington Books
Weight: 700 g
Dimensions: 156 × 230 × 2 mm
Date of publishing: 30. March 2006