Writing Postcolonial France
Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2011
196 pages
979-8-216-21814-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its former colonies in North Africa, the book maps the complexities of contemporary France, demonstrating an emerging postcoloniality within France itself.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
979-8-216-21814-2 (9798216218142)
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06/2011
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Person
Fiona Barclay is lecturer in the school of languages, cultures, and religions at the University of Stirling.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Return of the Colonial in Le Clézio, Bona and Sebbar
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: 17 October 1961: Haunting in Kettane, Sebbar, Maspero and Daeninckx
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Writing from Algeria: Haunted Narratives in Cardinal and Cixous
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Abjection: The Stranger Within in Prévost and Bouraoui
Chapter 6 Afterword
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Return of the Colonial in Le Clézio, Bona and Sebbar
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: 17 October 1961: Haunting in Kettane, Sebbar, Maspero and Daeninckx
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Writing from Algeria: Haunted Narratives in Cardinal and Cixous
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Abjection: The Stranger Within in Prévost and Bouraoui
Chapter 6 Afterword
