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I never thought I was at home [in Algeria], nor that Algeria was my country, nor that I was French.

— Hélène Cixous

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My own writing was born in Algeria out of a lost country of the dead father and the foreign mother.

Woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display.

I shall speak about women’s writing about what it will do.

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