So Vast the Prison A Novel

by Djebar, Assia; Wing, Betsy

• ISBN13: 9781583220092
• ISBN10: 1583220097
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-05
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

An Algerian living in exile and writing under a pseudonym plays the contradictions of her heroine's existence against the bloody carnage of Carthage, a great civilization to which the Berbers were once compared.

Author Biography

Betsy Wing is the author of Look Out for Hydrophobia, short stories and a novella and has published in The Southern Review and other journals. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Table of Contents

The Silence of Writing	11	(8)
What is Erased in the Heart
The Siesta	19	(6)
The Face	25	(12)
Space, Darkness	37	(11)
The Dance	48	(18)
The Absence	66	(21)
Before, After	87	(24)
The Goodbye	111	(12)
Erased in Stone
The Slave in Tunis	123	(8)
The Renegade Count	131	(4)
The Archeologist Lord	135	(7)
Destruction	142	(4)
The Secret	146	(7)
The Stele and the Flames	153	(6)
The Deported Writer	159	(12)
Abalessa	164	(7)
A Silent Desire
``Fugitive Without Knowing It''	171	(7)
Arable Woman I	178	(25)
First Movement: Of the Mother as Traveler	181	(22)
Arable Woman II	203	(21)
Second Movement: Of the Grandmother as a Young Bride	207	(17)
Arable Woman III	224	(28)
Third Movement: Of the Mother as Little Girl	230	(22)
Arable Woman IV	252	(26)
Fourth Movement: Of the Narrator in the French Night	258	(20)
Arable Woman V	278	(25)
Fifth Movement: Of the Narrator as an Adolescent	284	(19)
Arable Woman VI	303	(27)
Sixth Movement: Of Desire and its Desert	311	(19)
Arable Woman VII	330	(23)
Seventh Movement: Shadows of Separation	334	(19)
The Blood of Writing
Yasmina	353	(3)
The Blood of Writing---Final	356	(4)
Glossary	360