Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing (eBook)

Literary Sites of Memory

Jonathan Lewis (Autor)

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2018
256 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-305-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the first book-length study to analyse and problematize the notion of literary texts as 'sites of memory' with regard to the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), and memories of it, in the work of French authors of Algerian origin. The book considers a primary corpus spanning over forty literary texts published between 1981 and 2012, analysing the extent to which texts are able to collect diverse and apparently competing memories, and in the process present the heterogeneous nature of memories of the Algerian War. By setting up the notion of literary texts as 'sites of memory', where the potentially explosive but also consensual encounter between former colonizer and colonized subject takes place, the book contributes to ongoing debates surrounding the contested place of narratives of empire in French collective memory, and the ambiguous place of immigrants from the former colonies and their children in dominant definitions of French identity.

Autor

Academics and students who are interested in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, representations of the Algerian War, literature and memory, the afterlives of empire, decolonization and immigration.

Inhalt

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: History and Fiction: Literary Spaces, Memorial
Spaces

Chapter 2: Marginalization, Violence and (Dis)Integration:
Sites of Republican Memory and Legacies of the
Algerian War

Chapter 3: The Entanglement of Dominant and Other
Histories: Representations of 17 October 1961

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: French and Francophone Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Algerian • French • Literary • Memory • of • sites • war • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-305-0 / 1786833050
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-305-1 / 9781786833051