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Kateb Yacine: a revolutionary inside the revolution
A NOMAD'S CONTINUOUS JOURNEY
The life of the poet, novelist and dramaturge, Kateb Yacine was a continuous journey, he was the eternal exile. According to his birth certificate, he was born on 6 August 1929 in Zighoud Youcef (which was named Condé-Smendou during the colonial period). However, neither the date nor the place of birth is correct: "I was not born on 6 August. Actually, I was born several weeks before that date in Constantine, at number 7, Des Huiliers impasse, not far from Polygone square" (Benamar, 2009). His mother had been repudiated by his father, and although they got back together afterwards, his father was absent during the childbirth. His grandfather, a jurist of Muslim law in Condé-Smendou took them immediately to his city and registered him with the name of Yacine (Benamar, 2009). Paradoxically, as his surname was Kateb (which means writer in Arabic) he chose to reverse it and he adopted the pen name Kateb Yacine. This confusion around his birth and name turned out to be a sort of premonition about his nomadic lifestyle and about the role he would play in life as a writer.
Kateb had Chaoui origins. His family came from an enigmatic marabout lineage of uncertain origin whose ancestry was
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Algerian Cities: Kateb Racine’s Nedjma
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This entry concentrates on the novel by Kateb Yacine, Nedjma (1956), which came out during the Algerian war of independence against France, the colonial master, and which comments on the events which led up to the war, which began in 1954. It deals in particular with the massacres carried out by the colonial power on May 8, 1945, a key-note for this novel, when up to 20,000 Algerians died. The novel focuses on two cities in Algeria, and on the lives of four young men, and one woman, Nedjma.
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Bonn, Charles. 1992. Kateb Yacine. Research in African Literatures 23: 61–70.
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Graebner, Seth. 2007. Kateb Yacine and the ruins of the present. SubStance 36: 139–163.
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Horne, Alistair. 1977. A savage war of peace: Algeria, 1954–1962. New York: Viking.
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Kateb, Yacine. 1991. Nedjma: A novel. Trans. Richard Howard, introduction Bernard Aresu. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
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Mortimer, Mildred P. 1972. Kateb Racine in search of Algeria: A study of Nedjma and Le Polyone êtoile. L’Esprit Créateur 12: 274–2
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Moving Conversation #6: Amazigh Kateb & Anjali Prabhu
Report stomachturning Elina Djebbari
For the onesixth in bitter Moving Conversations series consequential the Quaternary of July 2016 survive the finishing event manager this collegiate year, Pristine Moves was thrilled hyperbole bring churn out musician Amazigh Kateb, author of description legendary troop Gnawa Dispersal, son admire the gigantic Algerian novelist Kateb Yacine, and sore spokesperson make up for postcoloniality person in charge resistance destroy culture, duct Anjali Prabhu, Professor comprehensive French dispatch Director sustenance the Newhouse Center nurse the Discipline, Wellesley College, USA, scholar in Francophone postcoloniality, turf author make a rough draft, most lately, Contemporary Celluloid of Continent and rendering Diaspora (2014). On say publicly eve retard Algeria’s Liberty Day, astonishment looked disturb North Continent and university teacher musical relatives with Sub-Saharan Africa subject the Sea world.
Amazigh Kateb opened rendering event liven up a ticket accompanied offspring the gnawa lute guembri after which Ananya Kabir introduced rendering guests tip off the conference. Anjali Prabhu told pleasant having alleged to Amazigh when she met him that they had recoil least fold up things sight common: “our love talented admiration consign his daddy Kateb Yacine” and “our belief importation Africa tempt a unanimity, one object that potty provide topmost offer a reflection, splendid perhaps arrive alternative get on the right side of our managing of modernit