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Title	:	Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Author	:	Assia Djebar
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 227 pages
Published	:	July 20th 1996 by Quartet Books (UK) (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Northern Africa. Algeria. Historical. Historical Fiction. France. Literature

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In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence--both their own and Algeria's.

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Original Title:	L'amour, la fantasia
ISBN:	0704326108 (ISBN13: 9780704326101)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Algeria

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A Rich Mosaic of FragmentsThis is the first novel written by an Algerian, man or woman, that I have ever read. I suspect that could be true for many readers. As a new voice in my world of literature, then, it's an important book. I saw FANTASIA as a kaleidescope, though, always producing patterns and colors, always arranged, but not always understandable. I found it very hard to judge this work because it has many facets, like a shifted kaleidescope.***** Five stars for the idea or conception of

A book that I can honestly say I hated, from the first page to the very last one. I started reading it in English (part of a series of books for a class on Arab Women Writers), and got suspicious about it while reading the apologetic preface: here we had a translator writing about the brilliant style, the luminous effects of language, and how the English translation doesnt do justice to the original French, etc. In short, this indicated to me that the translation was either pretty bad, or that

This was a little hard to get into at first, but after taking my time with it and really looking at everything she was doing, it became an amazing masterpiece. Djebar interweaves stories from across cultures, genders and time in order to create a history of Algeria that focuses on being inclusive and understanding that good and bad are in everyone. It's beautifully written - I haven't come across an author who can write so poetically and brilliantly since I read Steinbeck years ago. The more I

Assia Djebar wants you to write a term paper about her book. She wants you to deploy trendy crit theory terminology to unpack her overtly symbolic and extremely self-aware meta-narrative of historical readings, elided autobiography and tiresome, italicized hinge pieces. But she also wants you to learn about Algerian history, about life as an Arab woman and about the torturous process of forging an identity in the liminal space between a conquering and a conquered nation. Unfortunately, she has

Highly challenging; a love letter to Algeria and to the women of that country. A true palimpsest and (in)completely hybrid work. The cultural reference forcefield of LAmour, la fantasia is operatic in scope.

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade is not a novel, or a memoir or an oral history, though it shares characteristics with all three genres. It's a piece of literature that defies easy categorization. It is, perhaps, best described as a meditation on history (Algeria's in this case), alienation and women based on sources from both the French and native sides of Algeria's recent, tragic history, including the author's own experiences (she fought in the last rebellion that ended in Algeria's

Fantasia is an dense, ambitious and beautiful conceptual novel, very different and refreshing in its style and structure. It is part autobiography and part historical novel but at its heart Fantasia is a novel about Algerian women and their lost voices. The recovery of repressed stories is at the core of much postcolonial literature; Assia Djebar does it better than most, partly because she bares her teeth and her intent and sets out to openly and bravely confront exactly this silence, to