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The Algerian New Novel : The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950-1979 /

Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with revolutionary themes, The Algerian New Novel shows how Algerian authors writing in French actively contributed to the experimental forms of the period, expressing a new age litera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orlando, Valérie K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Midnight novelists
  • 2. French intellectuals, violence, and the Algerian War
  • 3. Assia Djebar's La Soif and Nathalie Sarraute's Portrait d'un inconnu : defining the authentic self in the exploration of a possible world
  • 4. Claude Ollier's Le Maintien de l'ordre and Kateb Yacine's Le Polygone étoilé : writing the modern stories that cannot be told on the blank pages of Algeria
  • 5. Mohammed Dib's Habel and the experimental Algerian novel : Third World movements and the ideological and literary "new man"
  • 6. Rachid Boudjedra's Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée : labyrinths of Algerian modernity
  • 7. Nabile Farès's Yahia, Pas de chance, and other experimental novels : out of the ruins emerges a new man and a new world
  • 8. Yamina Mechakra's La Grotte éclatée : reclaiming Algeria through the poetics of postcolonial space
  • Afterword : contemporary modes of being an Algerian author.