"نساء الجزائر في مخدعهن" لآسيا جبار : تقاطع النص مع الصورة

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Summary: Women of Algiers in their apartment is also the title of a work by the female writer Assia Djebar and the two paintings of the painter Eugène Delacroix.

In 1832, during a short stay in Algiers, Delacroix had the opportunity to visit a harem.

Inspired by this oriental experience, he paints the painting entitled "Women of Algiers in their apartment In 1849, Delacroix describes a second version of the Woman of Algiers.

The composition is about the same, .

A few years later, Picasso pursues the idea of Delacroix's second painting and transforms imprisoned women into bomb carriers.

Similar to Delacroix's two canvases, Assia Djebar's book comprises two parts entitled "Today" and "Yesterday" which represent the two periods of Algerian women's evolution concerning her role in an extremely patriarchal society.

On the one hand, we see the daily life of the Algerian woman before the war of independence, and on the other, her situation during and especially after the war.