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In Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, Assia Djebar places herself with great autobiographers: Augustine, the Berber who wrote not only his theology but his Confessions in the language of Rome; and Ibn Khaldfin, son of a family that fled southern Arabia, who wrote not only his history but his Ta'arifidentity in Arabic. Staging herself as an Algerian Muslim woman, she gives a fragmented version of the graph-ing of her bio in French. Identity as a wound, exposed by the historically hegemonic languages, for those who have learned the double-binding "practice of their writing" (F, p. 181). I accept this difficult definition, to present a series of citations of "myself" engaged in identity talk.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Wed,) studied this question.