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Algerian White: Nation, Narration and the War of Mother-Tongues

Panel: 
Nation and the Mother Tongue(s)
Abstract: 

Examines the critique of discourses of linguistic nationalism in Assia Djebar's Algerian White and interrogates the extraterritorial discursive space of grief that she attempts to create as a possible resolution to the "war of languages" (between French, Arabic and Berber) engendered by Algeria's heteroglot situation.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Diviani
Last Name: 
Chaudhuri
Institution: 
Binghamton University, SUNY