Time Signatures

<I>Time Signatures</I> engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar Hélène Cixous and Abdelkébir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a theme pulsing throughout these writers' works but also as a means of comprehending their unique improvisational writing styles Alison Rice offers readers a new and beautifully constructed way of reading these authors' texts by demonstrating that the form adopted to address topics of concern is as significant as the content itself.