Women Writing War focuses on the lifewriting of the moudjahidate the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence 19541962. The author offers close readings of memoir testimonial poetry and drama by Jacqueline Guerroudj Louisette Ighilahriz Anna Grki Zhor Zerari and Myriam Ben all of whom are documented moudjahidate and selfidentify as Algerian. Reading their lifewriting through the prism of theories of intertextuality minor literature and the dialectics of memory and trauma the author explores the relationship between writing resistance and political action. Since they compose their work in the firstperson voice in the context of the Algerian war this book argues that their writing operates collectively as a form of counterdiscourse opening up a textual space where experiences that were previously silenced or marginalized might be expressed.