Description:
Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Assia Djebar in the college classroom, including considerations of biography, violence, translation, race, gender, postcolonial feminism, French and francophone studies, Islamic historiography, film, and poststructuralist theory. Includes information on editions, reference works, and translations. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.
Brief description:
Anne Donadey is professor of French and francophone studies and of women's studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing between Worlds, coeditor of Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, and coeditor of the second edition of Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women's Studies.
Review Quotes:
"Timely and engaged with historical, linguistic, and aesthetic questions of interest to literary scholars in a variety of fields, this Approaches book provides standard as well as innovative pathways for a number of possible courses." --Françoise Lionnet, Harvard University