Writing Postcolonial France - Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb

Informationen zum Autor By Fiona Barclay Klappentext This book is the first literary study to examine how 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 the implications of haunting for French cultural memory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Barclay, Barclay Fiona
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9780739145036
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4503-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Europe, Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literature: history & criticism, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism