Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb (After the Empire)

By Alison Rice

Book Overview

Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and AbdelkZbir 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739112902
• ISBN13: 9780739112908
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"