by Assia Djebar · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420654218
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«Lejos de Medina» is the novel by Assia Djebar published by Alianza Editorial in paperback, with 272 pages and text in Spanish.
The work gives voice to women who appear in the earliest Muslim chronicles, in the Arabia of Islam's birth: tribal queens, prophetesses and warriors, as well as Fatima and Aisha. It interweaves their episodes and visions to reclaim the female presence in the religion's origins, before temporal power marginalized their condition.
The work was originally published in French as «Loin de Médine» and this Spanish edition is part of the Alianza Cuatro collection.
It appeals to readers of contemporary fiction and to those seeking a female perspective on the origins of Islam.
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.
