...Anna Blase Provitola Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Anna Blase Provitola FEMINISM IN THE "FATHER BOOK": COMPLICATING THE EMANCIPATION NARRATIVE IN ASSIA DJEBAR'S NOWHERE IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE But you-I am speaking to myself, like a sarcastic stranger-, where have you...

..., with her, to these buried voices, murmurs, whispers, mutterings, and Tzarl-rit,4 to the intimate 1. The original French title, "Les endeuille-es," emphasizes both the masculine and the feminine forms of the word mourner and could also be translated as "Men and Women in Mourning." 2. Assia Djebar, Nowhere...

... correspondence, the testitnony of their contelnporaries, and the language of their heroines. If the psychoanalytic approach is onlnipresent in Sellier's \vork, nowhere else does he apply it Inore consistently than in these essays with an extended effort to conllnent on the psychology of the preciosity: fronl...

... representing a whole psychological family.19 Nowhere more clearly than in this theory of types do we see what he means when he says that the poet continues the work of God: "the types are cases foreseen by God; genius actualizes them. "20 The type lives more intensely than real people do...

..., purposefully inappropriate for texts that are fragmentary, casually incomplete, riddled with hiatus and hardly delivering the well-rounded summary or "document" their title announces. Nowhere in this list of "histories" by Borges do we find a history of literature or, for that matter, of anyone literature...

... painting lately made me think of the Annunciation, the painting is nevertheless “something more concrete and more striking to the lesson” imparted, and does this so successfully that one could look at it without ever thinking of the lesson, “the thought symbolized” but “nowhere expressed” except...

... which it was produced. We cannot point to a locus of enunciation, whether of flesh and blood or bodied forth in a text, except in the form of a movement, of a slip. Rosselli's poetry cannot be mastered, possessed, grasped because it was written in transit, on the fly, on the way from nowhere to nowhere...

... thing to his autobiography. It is full of fascinating information available nowhere else but ultimately it is disappointing, not so much for its intrusiveness as for the opposite reason. It nowhere attempts to look beneath the surface. It contains no inkling of the secrets Aragon would approach so...

... nowhere, seem to defy the whole project of novel writing. The fact that I told the students this doesn't make it so. Still, I quote myself because my unrehearsed, somewhat desperate gambit on September 12,2001 suggests a line of argument that might answer Wood in a vocabulary that he could be expected...

... interested in how texts come into being; this process is nowhere better on display than in Zola's dossiers preparatoires. (GORAN BLIX, Princeton University) Nulle part et ses environs: Voyage aux confins de l'utopie litteraire classique (1657-1802). Jean-Michel Racault. Collection Imago Mundi, ed. Fran~ois...

... transcriptions from La Fontaine. Samaniego's eschewal of rhyme in favor of assonance is, however, nowhere in evidence in the transcription Flores doubtlessly penned with no other intention than that of facilitating en face cross-reading for students of intermediate Spanish. For this reason, it seems not only...

... of courtly love in the romance genre--how to allow the love to be consummated without sacrificing its beneficial effect-but he leaves it hanging" ("The Conflict of Lyric Conventions and Romance Form" 145). Nowhere, however, do I find readers wondering why the contradiction is not explicitly mentioned...

... start over, that this attempt is r­eally ­going nowhere. your eyes are folding up, and i ­can t tell you even one more ­thing. nothing s happening but that ­little gesture: one small hand, circling, tugging at the wrist of the other, palm side up. standing at attention in the corner. w­ ill i ever get...

... to avoid an overly lachrymose view of the Jewish past applies nowhere more than in nineteenth-c­ entury France, an era that saw an unprec­ e­dented level of Jewish social integration even as it sowed the seeds of l­ater animosity. To grasp nineteenth-c­ entury French Jewish history in all its complexity...

... is a solid collection of essays, and will be a must-read for most Zola specialists, as well as for the general reader interested in how texts come into being; this process is nowhere better on display than in Zola's dossiers preparatoires. (GORAN BLIX, Princeton University) Nulle part et ses environs: Voyage...

... oppression. And if cosmopolitanism is often aligned with universality and mobility, for Djebar it meant, rather, imagining an elsewhere. Perhaps most poignantly, Spivak observes that "to be a star is to be nowhere in her father's house," invoking the title of Djebar's last novel-a work that is dedicated...

... of the world he was a citizen of nowhere. He remained to the end a provisional guest or traveler in The Romanic Review Volume 108 Numbers 1 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 20 Ross Chambers: A Legacy of Love the United States. Like the Saidian intellectual exile, he reveled in the plea­sure of being...

... and emotionally wounded characters may find solace, and of plains as a locus of oppositional strategies. 29. Though by 1815 there were no longer any organized groups of maroons in Martinique, Arnold argues that "nowhere in the Caribbean is the literary tapas of the maroon more prominent than in Martinique...

...), or is not supposed to be there, in the parched and unwelcoming space. In this desert distancing, the voice speaking or crying out takes on an ecstatic quality, setting itself beside itself so that it is both dispossessed and polyphonic, before and after itself, nowhere, but in the desert (the middle of nowhere...

..., a Francophone writer, a feminist. Each of these descriptions is problematized in her work. To be a star is to be nowhere in her father's house. To be a feminist is to generalize women's oppression. Francophony is a labyrinth of double binds, an enabling violation, a distancing from the oral and the originary...