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008			260927s2009 xxk 0 eng d
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020			_a0745644368
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a843.914 _bCIX _223
100	1		_aCixous, Hélène _eauthor
245	1	0	_aSo close / _cHélène Cixous
264		1	_aCambridge : _bPolity, _c2009
300			_a163 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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
650		0	_aHomes and haunts
650		0	_aBirthplace
650		0	_aFrench Authors
650		0	_aBiography
650		0	_aWomen, algeria
650		0	_aAlgeria, history
650		0	_aPolitical culture
650		0	_aHistory
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