Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Overture: Francophony? Legitimacy, Auchenticity, and Integriry in French Literature     1
NameStakes: Putting the Proper Name into Textual Play     35
Assia Djebar
Religio: Re-thinking and Re-linking Cultural and Religious Tradition     89
Histoires a Contretemps: Syncopated Histories: Writing on the Offbeat     139
Helene Cixous
Settling the Musical Score: Orality, Rhythm, and Repetition in Writing Wrongs     187
Prelude to a Fugue, Out of North Africa: Uprooting and Rerouting in Autobiographical Fiction     231
Abdelkebir Khatibi
French Transcriptions, French Transpositions: Transportation, Transnation, and Transliteration     261
Silence and Schizophrenia: Subtle Slips of the Tongue     287
Cadenza: Nothing to Declare: Crossing the Border from Confession to Testimony     317
Bibliography     325
Index     339
About the Author     347