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    <body><![CDATA[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 lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4598459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read <u>Fantasia</u> for postcolonial studies in college, but it's taken me ever since then to &quot;get&quot; it - it's one of the smartest books I've ever read.<br/><br/>Djebar, in this elegantly structured novel of points and counterpoints, seems to be inviting you to step in and unpack the various ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20536688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gave up halfway through. It comes across like it was written for college students - it's such a blatant, hit-you-over-the-head sort of meditation on women, language, postcolonialism, historical violence, etc. It felt way too self-conscious and cliche. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[apparently a fantasia is a military manuever of the opposing sides taking turns being on the offensive and the defensive, making a back and forth sort of motion. if you look at the table of contents for this book, the actual structure of the novel takes that form as well--in and out, indented and no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/744623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This work houses some of the most beautiful language I have ever seen on a page. The author seemed to draw from the experiences of her soul to create this work of art. I only withhold five stars because the book is longer than necessary, and difficult to read due to its structure. There is no throug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1363328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book years ago in a women's lit class and absolutely loved it.  I knew only a very little bit about Algeria and their drawn out war with France for independence, and this book portrayed those times in vivid fashion.  Interweaving the stories of the war with the stories of a girl growing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9741525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can be a bit confusing with the interweaving of time frames from past to more present.   Algeria's colonization- and the fragmentation of its history, told from both oral stories and written reports from Algerians, french soldiers, and observers.   An interesting piecing together of different views ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17823213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The structure is interesting: personal memory counterpointed against epic history.  However, I found myself far more attracted to the personal memory side of things, and that's certainly where Djebar's literary powers reside.  I guess I still want to read more of what she's written, because I think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35828978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came across this on my bookshelf and after rereading the first paragraph, I remembered why I fell in love with this book four years ago.  It is almost a perfect book - it tackles religion, war, colonialism, the role of women, and most importantly love - and does so in exquisitely beautiful languag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15733867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting structure. Read for Trauma class while also taking a Transnational Feminism class....interesting intersections between representing trauma as art and the feminist themes. I can't say the reading experience would have been the same without the specific timing between the classes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The historical events of the French occupation in Algeria ; The perfect description of Emir Abdelkader as a revolutionary and a man of wisdom...<br/><br/>Assia Djebbar wrote this book with emotion and sensitivity that express her deep love to her country, not only to Cezaree, her hometown...   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantasia is a fascinating account of the French occupation of Algeria. The novel is partly from the perspective of an Algerian woman and partly from actual accounts of the occupation. It speaks mainly to the intricate and complex relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Assia Djebar is one of the most eloquent writers i've ever read.  Her language is absolutely enchanting.  However, this book could be difficult for someone unfamilar with Algerian history and culture, as well postcolonial and postmodernist theory and literature.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really beautiful -- stunning, really.  Djebar recuperates the voices of Algerian women during the country's revolution and the violent French colonization.  Truly, it pushes our understanding of history, its construction, in a very literary medium. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Few if any of the guys in my class liked this book, but I refuse to call it an exclusively girl book. Cool language stuff.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting read and a great fictional work. Its political implications are mired in the loose, moralistic arena of post-colonial studies. bleh.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[She juxtaposes history with oral history with life history... a truly feminist chronicle of the Colonial experience in Algeria.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing narrative of the Algerian liberation struggle against the French.  Great descriptions and historical references, very moving.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of Algerian women finding their voice under occupation and under the veil.  Beautiful...<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[thinking back through our mothers]]></body>
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