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Organized in three parts, it traces a personal-to-literary shift, examines poetry, prose, and the politics of writing, and follows later projects through posthumous forms of dialogue and interviews. The book includes scholarly notes, works cited, and an index, grounding its interpretations in bibliographic research.","Silence Is Death  \nSilence  \nFrance Overseas: Studies in  \nEmpire and Decolonization  \nseries editors Philip Boucher  \nA. J. B. Johnston James D. Le Sueur Tyler Stovall  \nIs Death  \nThe Life and Work of Tahar Djaout  \nJULIJA ŠUKYS  \nUniversity of Nebraska Press • Lincoln & London  \n© 2007 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the  \nUnited States of America  \nA part of “Dialogues with the Dead”originally appeared under the title“The Hypothetical Skeleton (A Letter to Tahar Djaout)” in Culture, Theory and Critique 45  \n(April 2004): 63–76, [http://www.tandf.co.uk](http://www.tandf.co.uk).  \nLibrary of Congress Catalogingin-Publication Data  \nŠukys, Julija.  \nSilence is death: the life and  \nwork of Tahar Djaout / Julija Šukys.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(France overseas)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8032-4320-0 (cloth: alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8032-4320-0 (cloth: alk. paper)  \n1. Djaout, Tahar, 1954–  \n2. Authors, Algerian—20th century  \n—Biography. I. Title. pq3989.2.d538z87 2007 843’.914—dc22 [B] 2006050020  \nFor Tahar Djaout. And for Sean Gurd, in a different way.  \nMon histoire risque, selon toute apparence, de se transformer en biographie.  \nIl faut bien veiller à cela.  \nBy all appearances, my story is in danger of becoming a biography.  \nI must be careful of that.  \n—ta har dja out  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments ix  \nPart One  \n1. Welcome to Elkader 3  \n2. The Death of the Author 14  \nPart Two  \n3. Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Writing in Algeria 41  \n4. Final Projects 64  \nPart Three  \n5. Dialogues with the Dead 87  \n6. Voyage Immobile 115  \n7. A Posthumous Interview with Tahar Djaout 135  \nNotes 145  \nWorks Cited 181  \nIndex 193  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nA constant presence throughout the writing of this book was the voice of Linda Hutcheon, though it spoke mostly inside my head and occasionally from inside my e-mail inbox. The power of a kind word from the right person at the right time cannot be underestimated, and Linda knows this better than most. I owe her many thanks for the lessons she taught while I was her graduate student at the University of Toronto (I carry these with me), and that she continues to teach now by example.  \nThis book was written during a particularly nomadic stage of life that took me from Chicago to Paris, Sydney, Jerusalem, Toronto, Cincinnati, and Montréal. In each city I found people who gave me support, ideas, sustenance, often a place to work, and occasionally a place to sleep.  \nI owe thanks to Andrew Wachtel and Mireille Rosello. Both supported this project intellectually and administratively during my tenure as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, where this project was begun. Russell Clement gave me a workspace at the university’s beautiful art library, where crucial portions of this text were conceived. This small gesture of his proved to be revolutionary for me and my writing, and for this reason I cannot thank him enough.  \nAt the University of Sydney, Australia, Suzanne Rutland welcomed me as a visiting scholar. 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