Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb
Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and Abdelkébir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a 'theme' pulsing throughout these writers' works, but also as a means of comprehending their unique, improvisational writing styles, Alison Rice offers readers a new and beautifully constructed way of reading these authors' texts by demonstrating that the form adopted to address...
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Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and AbdelkZbir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a _theme_ pulsing throughout these writers' works, but also as a means of comprehending their unique, improvisational writing styles, Alison Rice offers readers a new and beautifully constructed way of reading these authors' texts by demonstrating that the form adopted to address topics of concern is as significant as the content itself.
Acknowledgments ixOverture: Francophony? Legitimacy, Auchenticity, and Integriry in French Literature 1NameStakes: Putting the Proper Name into Textual Play 35Assia DjebarReligio: Re-thinking and Re-linking Cultural and Religious Tradition 89Histoires a Contretemps: Syncopated Histories: Writing on the Offbeat 139Helene CixousSettling the Musical Score: Orality, Rhythm, and Repetition in Writing Wrongs 187Prelude to a Fugue, Out of North Africa: Uprooting and Rerouting in Autobiographical Fiction 231Abdelkebir KhatibiFrench Transcriptions, French Transpositions: Transportation, Transnation, and Transliteration 261Silence and Schizophrenia: Subtle Slips of the Tongue 287Cadenza: Nothing to Declare: Crossing the Border from Confession to Testimony 317Bibliography 325Index 339About the Author 347
\ Hafid GafaïtiAlison Rice's Time Signatures is an original, well-researched and strongly argued work on the structural relationship between Francophone autobiographical writings and music. It constitutes a significant contribution to Francophone Studies and opens a new direction in the field.\ \
