Affirmation of Algerian Women’s Identity through the Subaltern Voices in Woman without a Burial Space of Assia Djebar

Name of Author : Navreeti Sharma

Abstract: Assia Djebar is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen. She was born on 30 June 1936 in Cherchell (Algeria) and died on 6 February 2015 in Paris. She was a writer, a historian, a poet and a filmmaker. She was the first Maghrebin writer to be elected in the French academy on 16 June 2005, the body which oversees developments in the French language. Her works have been translated into at least 20 languages, although not yet in Arabic. In 1996, she was awarded Neustadt International Prize for her contribution to the world literature. In 1997, she won the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize. In 1998, she won the International Prize of Palmi.

Keywords : education suffered due to Algerian war

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