by Assia Djébar · Pagès editors, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479357900
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«Dones d'Alger en les seves estances» is a collection of short stories by Assia Djébar, published by Pagès editors, S.L. in paperback (192 pages, in Catalan).
The painting Delacroix made in 1832 after visiting a harem in Algiers inspired another version by Picasso in 1955, which turned the women into heroines of the Algerian independence. Djebar takes them up again in 1980 to show their diversity and resistance after colonialism with an oral prose that reconstructs memory through the body.
Translation into Catalan of the French original Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, by Àngels Santa and Maria Casañé. Volume 2 of the Lo Marraco Blau collection.
For readers of African and Maghrebi literature and for those interested in the work of Assia Djebar and in the connections between painting, memory and feminism.
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
