by Assia Djebar · Unionsverlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783293201781
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«Weißes Algerien» is the memoir by Algerian writer Assia Djebar, published by Unionsverlag in paperback, 251 pages, in German.
In this memoir, Assia Djebar observes the Algeria of the 1990s, broken by violence and history. The white of cities and traditional fabrics becomes the colour of mourning and memory, as the author remembers vanished friends and sketches lives where generosity and abuse of power coexist.
Work originally published as «Le Blanc de l'Algérie» in 1995; German edition translated from French by Hans Thill.
Of interest to readers of memoir literature and to those seeking an Algerian perspective on memory, identity and the colonial past.
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.
