Edward Still

My research centres on the francophone literatures of Algeria, and more specifically at the present moment on the manners in which women have been inscribed in texts pertaining to the revolutionary period. Thus far, for my thesis, I have been focusing on the works of Kateb Yacine, most notably his 'Cycle de Nedjma', exploring, amongst other issues, the ways in which the texts encourage readings of the Algerian woman's problematic external constitution in history, and on feminine presence and influence in the works of Mohammed Dib. My thesis, more generally, seeks to assess the extent to which the literatures of the period, from the novels of Mouloud Ferraoun to the poetry of the Moudjahidate, have fulfilled notions of 'representing' and to consider the ways in which they open an interpretative space for considerations of women's representation though their literarity. I approach these issues and others whilst reading with the theories of Bourdieu, Spivak, and Lacan.