Cixous, Hélène creator author text xxk 2009 monographic eng

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163 pages "In So Close, Helen Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Above all, she must confront the depths of her mother's rejection of the country that had rejected her despite years of devotion to the poor women of Algiers. As she is struggling with this decision, she receives a message from Zohra Drif, with whom she has had no contact since their school days, which was just before Drif joined the Algerian FLN and became a heroine in the uprising against French rule in her homeland. They meet in Paris for the first time in more than fifty years and soon afterward the narrator departs for Algiers." "The latter part of the narrative brings a rush of sensations, impressions, memories, and new en Hélène Cixous Homes and haunts Birthplace French Authors Biography Women, algeria Algeria, history Political culture History 843.914 CIX 9780745644363 0745644368 InACL 260927 20260927161300.0 133305 eng