Description: Looking back from numerous vantage points throughout her life, she presents the complicated and divisive dynamics of being raised between two shores--the colonized and the colonizer.
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Brief description: Skyler Artes, Ph.D is the translator of Arabic as a Secret Song by Leïla Sebbar (University of Virginia Press, 2015) and I Die By This Country by Fawzia Zouari (University of Virginia Press, 2018), both part of CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French.
Review Quotes:
Sebbar's Arabic as a Secret Song is a dense, rich, very well-written, and poetic text.... a thought-provoking recapitulation and complex reflection on the motivations and themes that underlie her fictional and autobiographical writings.
--Mediterranean Studies