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Poets and the Algerian War
A collection of poems provoked by the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) by French and Algerian poets. This anthology features some of the French poets who opposed the war, including Louis Aragon, Jacques Gaucheron, Madeleine Riffaud, Pierre Seghers, Henri Deluy and Guillevic, as well as Algerian poets like Jean Snac, Kateb Yacine, Bachir Hadj
The Streets of Algiers and Other Poems
The first collection in English of poems by the French-Algerian poet Anna Greki (1931-66) about the Algerian struggle for independence from France.
The Graying of the Raven
From East to West The raven has turned gray O Reader of the unknown Help us in our ordeal! With a fine touch, Aida Bamia has explored the work of Muhammad bin al-Tayyib 'Alili (c.1894 c.1954), a hitherto virtually unknown oral poet of Algeria, bringing to her analysis new understanding of folk poetry as part of a people's collective memory and their resistance to colonization. For 'Alili's audience the despair and suffering faced by poor farmers before independence is embodied by the raven, grown old and gray with ceaseless frustration and humiliation. Because of its oral and all too often ephemeral nature, the work of poets such as 'Alili could escape close scrutiny by French colonial admin...
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