| Description |
1 online resource (408 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2 |
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Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2
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| Contents |
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Copyright Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Place in the Word; 1: Life/Writing in the Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts; 2: Mouloud Feraoun: Life Story, Life-Writing, History; 3: Albert Memmi: Fictions of Identity and the Quest for Truth; 4: Abdelkébir Khatibi: The Deciphering of Memory and the Potential of Postcolonial Identity; 5: Assia Djebar: History, Selfhood and the Possession of Knowledge; Conclusion: A Place in the World; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelkbir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individuals relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned pri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Feraoun, Mouloud -- Criticism and interpretation
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Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Memmi, Albert -- Criticism and interpretation
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Khatibi, Abdelkebir, 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 fast |
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Feraoun, Mouloud fast |
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Khatibi, Abdelkebir, 1938- fast |
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Memmi, Albert fast |
| Subject |
North African literature (French) -- History and criticism
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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North African literature (French)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846312625 |
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1846312620 |
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0853236593 |
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9780853236597 |
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