TY  - JOUR
TI  - In the Father’s House: Language and Violence in the Work of Assia Djebar and Leïla Sebbar
AB  - This essay examines autobiographical writing by two women who grew upin colonial Algeria; it considers how the relationship between fathers anddaughters is marked by linguistic conflict. For each of these writers,language is not a simple tool, but instead a problematic inheritance thatshapes her world and her relationship with her father. Assia Djebar andLeila Sebbar, who were children in colonial Algeria of the late 1940s andearly 1950s, examine their relationships to Arabic and French in terms oftheir relationships with their families and in particular with theirschoolteacher fathers. The fathers, who benefitted from French colonialeducation, fail to understand the different risks inherent for theirdaughters in transgressing conservative community and linguisticboundaries. Each writer, even as she acknowledges the benefits of thecolonizer’s language, also describes the language as a scene of violenttrauma for which she holds her father responsible. With language andpaternal love so tightly entwined, this essay argues that even in highlypoliticized colonial contexts, the national value of a language can only beunderstood if the familial and personal value of the language is also takeninto account.
AU  - SCHNEİDER, Annedith
PY  - 2018
JO  - Kadın/Woman 2000 - Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
SN  - 1302-9916
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/303837
ER  -