Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry

by Djebar, Assia

• ISBN13: 9781583227213
• ISBN10: 1583227210
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Seven Stories Pr

Summary

Internationally acclaimed novelist, scholar, poet, and filmmaker Assia Djebar presents a brutal, yet delicate exposition of how warring worlds enact their battles upon women's lives and bodies.Foreigners both in their home and homeland, the people in these stories search for authenticity in hospitals, in homes, in family, in graves. Caught most symbolically in the crossfire lie the bodies, minds, and lives of women. A French woman is renamed in order to be buried beside her Algerian husband. Another loses her daughter to that continental divide. With the will to justly carry divergent loyalties, we discover the human heart to exist in all places, within, over, and beneath any geographic borders.With renowned and unparalleled skill, Assia Djebar does more than bring to life the unspeakable realities of war and independence, in The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry she draws lines and paints color onto the human faces that speak directly to us with resonating intimacy.Assia Djebar is one of North Africa's best-known and most widely acclaimed writers. Author of the widely acclaimed Algerian White and So Vast the Prison, Djebar's books often explore the struggle for social emancipation and the Muslim woman's world in its complexities. She was elected to the Academie Francaise in 2005, won Germany's Le Prix de la Paix in 2000, and the Neustadt Prize for Contributions to World Literature in 1996. She is a Silver Professor of Francophone literature and civilization at NYU.