''Women of Algiers in Their Apartment'' is a 1980 novel by the Algerian writer
Assia Djebar
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (; 30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), 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 ...
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French 'immortals' get a history lesson
, The Times Online (June 23, 2006). It is a collection of short stories celebrating the strength and dignity of
Algerian women
Algerian may refer to:
* Something of, or related to Algeria
* Algerian people, a person or people from Algeria, or of Algerian descent
* Algerian cuisine
* Algerian culture
* Algerian Islamic reference
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of the past and the present. It interweaves the stories of the lives of three Muslim Algerian women. Assia Djebar's inspiration to write ''Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement'' came from Delacroix's painting ''
The Women of Algiers
''Women of Algiers in their Apartment'' () is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix.
Delacroix's first version of ''Women of Algiers'' was painted in Paris in 1834 and is located in the Lou ...
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Plot
The book is a collection of short stories about the lives of pre-colonial,
colonial, and postcolonial women at various levels of Algerian society. It is a work about the
compartmentalization of women in Algeria and the "harems"—social, economic, symbolic—into which they are placed.
Footnotes
External links
BNET Research Center Review*
1980 novels
French-language novels
Novels by Assia Djebar
Novels set in Algeria
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