Alison Rice, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Literature at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb.
Polygraphies is a fascinating study of 'women writing Algeria, '
and it is innovative in its inclusion of important writers born in
Algeria, whether now considered "French" or "Algerian". Bringing
these women's voices together through their use of the
autobiographical mode is an inspired move, and the title expresses
the range of personal experience, as well as literary form, that is
involved. The author is especially gifted in her ability to ground
her literary analysis in a wide range of contemporary literary
theory. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.--Mary Jean Green,
Dartmouth College, author of Women and Narrative Identity:
Rewriting the Quebec National Text
The connections among texts by these various authors are
articulated clearly and persuasively. The book's elegant analysis
of parallels in several of these authors' autobiographical scenes
makes the case for reading Cixous and Djebar together in ways that
have not been done before. It also provides an original
contribution to the scholarship on less-studied but important
authors.--Anne Donadey, San Diego State University, author of
Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing between Worlds
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