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The story of how Isma and Hajila, wives of the same man, escape from the traditional restraints imposed upon the women of their country. ... Read more

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One of the best books I have read in the past 10 years
This book is written by 4-time nobel prize nominated author Assia Djebar, who combines the wonderful poetic tradition of her native Algerian Arabic in a story translated from the French, that not only gives us a picture of modern Algerian women and what their lives can be like, but has literary allusions that pervade through out (though they may not be obvious to all readers).Regardless of how literary a person may be, this story has an ending that is completely unpredictable and yet completes this story and connects the literary themes employed exquisitely.
Does it help to be familiar with Algerian history and Arabic tradition?Absolutely, but is not necessary.

Is it a feminist book? Yes.

Is it controversial? Djebar has received death threats and has been exiled from her own country.

Will Djebar win the Nobel Prize?I think so, eventually.

Is it a good read?Well, other than the fact that the prose is so beautiful it flows like honey, that's for you to decide.

Enjoy this book, but don't expect it to be anything even close to ordinary.
W.M.

Algerian Feminism
Djebar's first work to be published simultaneously in French and English in Paris and London, attesting to her global reputation as a post-colonial writer. It would seem that the stronger feminist message in this work resulted in a stereotyped approach to women in Algeria, although Djebar also subverted these Western preconceptions by indicating that modern women suffer from their own gendered problems.

the view of a strange woman
This was my first book by an Algerian author. I found it, hard to say, kind of impressionistic writing, where subjective feelings and thoughts that occur at the spur of the moment count more than actual description. The main characters appear in the story as "I" and "you" and "the man". This no-name-man was married to both women, and the only time he appears in the story is when he calls on the wife to come to bed. The women, meanwhile, are described wandering aimlessly in the town, pondering to take off the veil or not, or worrying about her child who is with the other woman now. I kept waiting for something to happen, for some solution in the hardly existing plot,but... The whole book left me feeling uncomfortable and empty, maybe this was the intention of the author. Anyway, I think, I will stick to Fatima Mernissi in future, much more human and entertaining too.

A compelling read
About life in front of and behind the veil, this book presents a compelling read: the body becomes the battleground for men and women to take ownership of their own bodies, and in some ways, consequently their own minds.I was considering this book for a world literature class, but the sex scenes are a little risque for 10th grade.However, those scenes are not gratutious--they have their place in this book.Perhaps, however, not for 15 year olds, just yet. Djebar writes the book in both first person narrative and directive narrative (second person)--what results is that we're inside the head of one woman and the commanding voyeur with the other.Djebar makes us uncomfortable looking in and directing a woman who clearly wants to escape such structures.What we're left with is an uncomfortable with our positions,but the wiser for having become uncomfortable. Agreat read!Well worth it.

This book....
I thought this book was pretty good.It is a story that follows two women, both wives of the same man.When Hajila sees an "unveiled woman," she too, wants a life "beyond the veil."This bookdoes a good job of describing some of the traditional restraints placed onthese women, and how they work to escape them. ... Read more

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What are the political implications of an Arab feminist writing practice? How do the works of Assia Djebar, Algeria’s internationally acclaimed francophone writer, relate to the priorities and perspectives of both Western and Arab feminist politics? Does Djebar succeed in her aim of reclaiming the history of her homeland, and of her religion, Islam, for women?In Assia Djebar: In Dialogue with Feminisms, Priscilla Ringrose uncovers the mechanisms of Djebar’s revisionary feminism and examines the echoes and dissonances between what Djebar has termed her “own kind of feminism” and the thinking of French feminist writers Kristeva, Cixous and Irigaray and Arab scholars Mernissi and Ahmed. Arguing that Djebar’s work is in constant dialogue with other feminisms, she assesses the strengths and weaknesses of its revisionist ideals, and identifies its own particular intervention into current political and cultural debates.This book will appeal not only to scholars working on Djebar, but also to students of colonial history, women’s studies and cultural politics.Table of ContentsIntroductionIn Dialogue with Kristeva: L’Amour, la fantasiaIn Dialogue with Cixous : Vaste est la prisonIn Dialogue with Irigaray: Ombre sultaneIn Dialogue with Feminisms: Loin de MédineConclusionBibliography ... Read more

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A disappointing book
The book is not worth the price it is sold for.The author gives us a series of stories, all ending abruptly.In the French text, the reader cannot really make the difference between who relates what story because there are not enough quotation marks or signs to let the reader know who is saying what.The postface is really poorly written to the point where it does not make sense.
Le texte est un dédale de mots crachotés, dans de multiples séries d'appositions, imposées au lecteur ad nauseam.Il y a des phrases sans verbes.La grammaire est écorchée.On veut bien qu'un auteur place avant le nom qu'il modifie un adjectif qui normalement se met après le nom, une fois, deux fois, mais Assia Djebar abuse de cette technique.Il y a donc manque du respect à l'égard du lecteur.Ses histoires se terminent en queue de poisson.Le ton verbeux de la postface achève le lecteur tant elle est embrouillée et obscure.Les auteurs maghrébines autres que Assia Djebar savent manier la langue française d'une façon plus simple, plus touchante et pourtant savante.C'est un livre décevant, médiocre, qui ne mérite pas les louanges qu'il reçoit.Assia Djebar doit encore apprendre.Elle doit entre autres choses apprendre à véhiculer son message, de façon claire et nette.Elle doit apprendre sa grammaire.Elle doit faire un effort pour ne pas fatiguer le lecteur, dans son style, et dans son choix d'agencement de ses histoires. Peut-être devrait-elle relire Boileau, si tant est qu'elle l'ait déjà lu.Ou retourner à l'école. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Berbersprachen, Zinédine Zidane, Zanata, Al-Kahina, Assia Djebar, Ibn Battuta, Abd El-Krim, Muhammad I. Al-Mustansir, Khalid Boulahrouz, Tariq Ibn Ziyad, Masties, Al-Muʿizz Ibn Bādīs Az-Zīrī, Abu Yazid, Abbas Ibn Firnas, Ait Waryaghar, Tahar Djaout, Tataouine, Abu Bakr Ibn Umar, Al-Hassan Ibn Ziri, Buluggin Ibn Ziri, Idris I. Al-Ma'mun, Abu Zakariya Yahya I., Rabah Belamri, Abd Al-Aziz Ii., Bādīs Ibn Al-Mansūr Ibn Buluqqīn Ibn Zīrī, Königreich Mauretanien, Sanhadscha, Miknasa, Uthman, Kabylen, Abu Hafs Umar I., Bargawata, Al-Mansur Ibn Ziri, Tamīm Ibn Al-Muʿizz Az-Zīrī, Magrawa, Abu L-Abbas Ahmad Ii., Stotzas Der Jüngere, Schakija, Kusaila Ibn Lemzem, Rifkabylen, Masmuda, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim I., Cheb I Sabbah, Yahya Ii. Al-Wathiq, Berberei. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Hajji Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (Arabic: ‎), or simply Ibn Battuta (February 24, 1304-1368 or 1369), was a Moroccan Berber Muslim scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla (voyage in Arabic). His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. With this extensive account of his journey, Ibn Battuta is often considered as one of the greatest travellers ever. A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj.All that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from the autobiographical information included in the account of his travels. Ibn Battuta was born into a family of Islamic legal scholars in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304 during the time of ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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From the supplier: Algerian writer Assia Djebar's selection as winner of the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature serves as a vindication for the Algerian man's indifference to the rights and abilities of women. By lifting the veil of Arab women through her literary works, Djebar has likewise opened the eyes of Arab men by making them realize the folly of ignoring the potentials and abilities of the Arab women.

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Title: Assia Djebar, or Eve in her garden. (Algerian man acknowledges the abilities of Algerian women)(Assia Djebar: 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature)
Author: Mohammed Dib
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v70Issue: n4Page: p788(1)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Assia Djebar (Arabic: ) is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born 30 June 1936), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. Djebar was born in Cherchell, a small coastal town near Algiers. Her family lived in a little village nearby called Mouzaïaville. There, she attended the primary school where her father taught French. She later attended a boarding school in Blida. In 1955, Djebar became the first Algerian woman to be accepted at the École Normale Supérieure, an elite Parisian college. In 1957, she published her first novel, La Soif ("The Thirst"). Fearing her father's disapproval, she had it published under the pen name Assia Djebar. Another book, Les Impatients, followed the next year. Also in 1958, she and Ahmed Ould-Rouïs began a marriage that would eventually end in divorce. In 1962, Djebar published Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde, and followed that in 1967 with Les Alouettes Naïves. She remarried in 1980, to the Algerian poet Malek Alloula. The couple lives in Paris, France. In 2005, Djebar was accepted into the Académie Française, a prestigious institution tasked with guarding the heritage of the French language. She is currently a professor of Francophone literature at New York University. In 1996, Djebar won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her contribution to world literature. The following year, she took home the Yourcenar Prize. Djebar has also consistently been nomin... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1907465 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Frantz Fanon, Assia Djebar, Yasmina Khadra, Adel Abdessemed, Mohammed Dib, Boualem Sansal, Hamid Skif, Rachid Boudjedra, Thelma Schoonmaker, Tahar Djaout, Rabah Belamri, Liste Algerischer Schriftsteller, Sid Ali Melouah, Daniel Timsit, Mouloud Feraoun, Louzla Darabi, Warda Al-Dschaza'iriya, Mouloud Mammeri, Abdelhafid Khatib, Cheb Bilal, Cheb Aziz, Maïssa Bey. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Frantz Omar Fanon (July 20, 1925 - December 6, 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. His work remains influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. Fanon is perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French département. He was born into a mixed family background: his father was the descendent of African slaves, and his mother was said to be an illegitimate child of mixed race, whose white ancestors came from Strasbourg in Alsace. Fanon's family was socioeconomically middle-class, and they could afford the fees for the Lycée Schoelcher, then the most prestigious high school in Martinique, where the writer Aimé Césaire was one of his teachers. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops were blockaded on Martinique. Forced to remain on the island, French soldiers became "authentic racists." Many accusations of harassment and sexual misconduct arose. The abuse of the Martiniquan people by the French Army was a major influence on Fanon, as it reinforced his feelings of alienation and his disgust at the realities of colonial racism. At the age of eighteen, Fanon fled the island as a "dissident" (the coined word for French West Indians joining the gaullist ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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From the supplier: Algerian author Assia Djebar's 'Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade' adopts the French feminist 'ecriture feminine' to express women's lack of expression in a male-dominated world. Aside from her use of silence and aphasia to portray this lack of expression, she relates language to the body of a female dancer that can convey meaning only when it is disembodied. Thus, she expresses her concern about appropriation, difference and sexuality.

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Title: A stepmother tongue: "feminine writing" in Assia Djebar's 'Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade.'
Author: Soheila Ghaussy
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68Issue: n3Page: p457(6)

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Chapters: Algerian Writers, Frantz Fanon, Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, Azouz Begag, Pierre Rabhi, Mouloud Mammeri, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Malek Bennabi, Mohammed Dib, Rachid Boudjedra, Boualem Sansal, Yasmina Khadra, Nabile Farès, Rachid Mimouni, Leïla Sebbar, Zighen Aym, Mohammed Chaouki Zine, Tahar Djaout, Emmanuel Roblès, Literature of Algeria, Faïza Guène, Abdelkader Alloula, the Women of Algiers in Their Apartments, Malika Mokkeddem, Latifa Ben Mansour, Salem Zenia, Mouloud Feraoun, Salima Ghezali, Farida Belghoul, List of Algerian Writers, Mohammed Yacine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frantz Omar Fanon (July 20, 1925 December 6, 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. His work remains influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. Fanon is perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French département. He was born into a mixed family background: his father was the descendent of African slaves, and his mother was said to be an illegitimate child of mixed race, whose white ancestors came from Strasbourg in Alsace. Fanon's family was socioeconomically middle-class, and they could afford the fees for the Lycée Schoelcher, then the most prestigious high school in Martinique, where the writer Aimé Césaire was one of his teachers. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops were blockaded on Martinique. Forced to remain on the island, French soldiers became "authent...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=95185 ... Read more

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From the supplier: Assia Djebar, 14th Laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, continues to use her literary skills to expose the abuses of Algeria's leaders. Her courage and perseverance has emboldened the people to condemn the evils of tyranny and reintegrate into society those whom powerful figures in the political, secular and religious sectors wish to silence. Because of the threat posed by writers on the status quo, literature is usually stifled in despotic regions such as Algeria.

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Title: Of pencil points and petty tyrants. (literature versus despotic leaders)(Assia Djebar: 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature)
Author: Djelal Kadir
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v70Issue: n4Page: p777(2)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Assia Djebar, May Ziade, Riverbend, Samira Bellil, Nathalie Handal, Ghada Al-Samman, Zainab Salbi, Wallada Bint Al-Mustakfi, Asma Bint Marwan, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq, Al-Khansa, Leila Abouzeid, Layla Al-Akhyaliyya, Haifa Zangana, Gisèle Halimi, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, Hoda Barakat, Nazik Al-Malaika, Daisy Al-Amir, Farrah Sarafa, Siham Benchekroun, Nuha Al-Radi, Rena Kirdar Sindi, Alia Mamdouh, Sahar Khalifeh, Nahla Chahal, Alifa Rifaat, Fatima Gallaire, Betool Khedairi, Nadia Chafik, Tamara Chalabi. Excerpt:Al-Khansa , Drawing by Kahlil Gibran , al-Funun 2, no. 10 (March 1917) Tum ir bint Amr ibn al- arth ibn al-Shar d al-Sulam yah (Arabic : ) , usually simply referred to as al-Khans (Arabic : ) (translated from Arabic as either 'gazelle ' or 'short-nosed') was a 7th century Arabic poet . She was born and raised in the Najd region (the central region of modern-day Saudi Arabia). She was a contemporary of Muhammad , and eventually converted to Islam . In her time, the role of a female poet was to write elegies for the dead and perform them for the tribe in public oral competitions. Al-Khansa won respect and fame in these competitions with her elegies for her brothers, akhr and Mu wiyah, who had died in battle. She is the best known female poet in Arabic literature. Life Al-Khansa was born into a rich family of Najd . In 612 AD, her brother Mu awiyah was killed by members of another tribe. Al-Khansa insisted that her brother, Sakhr, avenge Mu awiyah's death, which he did. Sakhr was wounded in the process and died of his wounds a year later. Al-Khansa mourned his death in poetry and gained fame for her elegiac compositions. She met the Prophet Muhammad in 629 and converted to Islam . He is said to have been very impressed by her poetry. She had four sons: Yaz d, Mu wiy... ... Read more

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From the supplier: Algerian writer Assia Djebar confronts conflicting issues over the veil and the French language in the context of Algerian culture. Unlike in Algeria where women wearing veils go in public unnoticed, the same veil commands attention when worn in foreign countries. Although Djebar prefers to speak in French to her male friends because the language is more neutral than Arabic, she recognizes that the the French language is deemed the language of the enemy, the French colonists of Algeria.

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Title: Assia Djebar: parallels and paradoxes. (writer)(Assia Djebar: 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature)
Author: David Kelley
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v70Issue: n4Page: p844(3)

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From the supplier: Algerian writer Assia Djebar ventured into filmmaking as a celebration of Arab women's right to see and be seen. Her position behind the camera symbolizes her rejection of the dominating gaze of a patriarchal society. In a culture where women are prohibited from seeing and being seen, appropriating the gaze for themselves mocks the repressive system. Islamic fundamentalism views reappropriation of the gaze as provocation that must be with countered with violence and oppression.

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Title: Reappropriating the gaze in Assia Djebar's fiction and film.(Assia Djebar: 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature)
Author: Mildred Mortimer
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v70Issue: n4Page: p859(8)

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Title: Assia Djebar--Out of Algeria.(Book review)
Author: Sophie Smith
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Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
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Title: Two Major Francophone Women Writers, Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar: A Thematic Study of Their Works.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Sarah Davies Cordova
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Assia Djebar, Monique Canto-Sperber, Pascale Hummel, Anne Cheng, Catherine Clément, Anne Lauvergeon, Mona Ozouf, Madeleine Rebérioux, Danièle Sallenave, Dominique Méda, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Simone Bonnafous, Florence Dupont, Thérèse Delpech, Colette Beaune, Nicole El Karoui, Christine Bénard, Eugénie Cotton, Claude Imbert, Marie-Claire Bergère, Michèle Audin, Elisabeth Giacobino, Mireille Hadas-Lebel, Françoise Combes, Florence Weber, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Josiane Heulot-Serre, Laurence Danon, Françoise Autrand, Sévrienne. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Assia Djebar (arabe : ) de son vrai nom Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, née à Cherchell le 30 juin 1936, est un écrivain algérien d'expression française, auteur de romans, nouvelles, poésies et essais. Elle a écrit également pour le théâtre, et elle réalisa plusieurs films. Son œuvre a pour thèmes l'émancipation des femmes, l'histoire, l'Algérie considérée à travers sa violence et ses langues. Assia Djebar est considérée comme l'une des auteurs les plus célèbres et influentes du Maghreb. Elle fut élue à l'Académie française en 2005. « J'écris, comme tant d'autres femmes écrivains algériennes avec un sentiment d'urgence, contre la régression et la misogynie. » - Assia Djebar Assia Djebar naît dans une famille de petite bourgeoisie traditionnelle algérienne. Son père, Tahar Imalhayène est un instituteur (issu de l'École normale musulmane d'instituteurs de Bouzaréah) originaire de Gouraya. Sa mère, Bahia Sahraoui, appartient à la famille berbère des Berkani (issue de la tribu des ait Menasser du Dahra). Assia Djebar passe son enfance à Mouzaïaville (Mitidja), étudie à l'école française puis dans une école coranique privée. À partir de 10 ans, ell...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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From the supplier: Assia Djebar has been nominated for the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature because of her literary efforts in making audible the repressed voices of Muslim women in Algeria. Her emphasis on the significant roles played by women in Arab society has rewritten Islamic history by assuring female Muslims of an inheritance previously denied to them. Despite Djebar's exposure of women's history of forced silence, she remains fond of the Muslim menfolk.

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Title: A letter to Assia Djebar. (Algerian writer)(Assia Djebar: 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature)
Author: Barbara Frischmuth
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v70Issue: n4Page: p778(3)

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