Remembering French Algeria : Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile /

"Remembering French Algeria examines the written and visual re-creation and preservation of identity in colonial Algeria from 1962 to the present by the Pieds-Noir, former French citizens of Algeria"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hubbell, Amy L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pieds-Noirs in literature.
Literature.
Group identity.
French prose literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Collective memory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Decolonisation dans la litterature.
Memoire collective > Algerie.
Identite collective > Algerie.
Pieds-noirs dans la litterature.
Prose française > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Collective memory > Algeria.
Group identity > Algeria.
French prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Algeria > Algiers.
Algeria.
Algiers (Algeria) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Narrative Strategies in Rewriting Algeria
  • pt. 1 REPEAT
  • 2. Pieds-Noirs: Fighting against Forgetting
  • 3. Fixing the Past: Marie Cardinal's La Mule de corbillard
  • 4. Pleasures of a Painful Past: Writing to Remember, Writing to Forget
  • pt. 2 RETURN
  • 5. (Re)turning to Algeria: Nostalgia, Imagination, and Writing
  • 6. Real Returns: Confrontation, Blindness, and Ruins
  • 7. Return of Algeria: Relieving and Sustaining the Phantom Limb.

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