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Author:

Sebbar, Le©la.

Title:

Arabic as a secret song / Le©la Sebbar ; translated by Skyler Artes ; afterword by Mildred Mortimer.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

108 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Sebbar, Le©la.
Sebbar, Le©la--Family.
Authors, French--20th century--Biography.
Authors, Algerian--20th century--Biography.
Algerians--France--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Artes, Skyler, translator.

Other Titles:

Arabe comme un chant secret. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109).

Contents:

If I Speak My Mother's Language -- If I Do Not Speak My Father's Language -- My Father's Body in My Mother's Language -- The Mothers of My Father's People in My Mother's Language -- The Silence of My Father's Language, Arabic -- The Return of the Absent One -- To Hear Arabic as a Sacred Song -- I Write of Arabic, Foreign at Home, and of God, Foreign at Home -- I Write the Imaginary Arab, My Father.

Series:

CARAF books: Caribbean and African literature translated from French

ISBN:

0813937566
9780813937564
0813937574
9780813937571

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893452423

LCCN:

2014045922

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)