The Body Beseiged - The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar

Informationen zum Autor Helen Vassallo is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter, UK. Her primary research interests are in autobiography, illness narratives, and legacies of conflict. Klappentext The Body Beseiged: The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar by Helen Vassallo analyzes the enduring legacy of the Algerian War of Independence by setting in dialogue the work of two contemporary Franco-Algerian writers, Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar. It uses the concept of "embodied memory" to examine the correlation between history and autobiography, drawing on theories of exile, wounding, embodiment, and remembrance to expose fractures in the Franco-Algerian relationship in an era of commemoration and reconciliation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar, Embodying the Trauma of "Algeria Lost" Chapter 1: Embodying a Fractured Identity: Writing on the Divide in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué and La Vie heureuse Chapter 2: The Embodiment of Environment: Re-thinking Alienation and Re-constructing Identity in Nina Bouraoui's Poupée Bella and Mes Mauvaises Pensées Chapter 3: The Pain of Algeria Remembered: Vestiges of Algeria in Exile. Leïla Sebbar's Lettres parisiennes: Histoires d'exil and Journal de mes Algéries en France Chapter 4: A Linguistic Alienation: Finding an Affiliation to Arabic in French. Leïla Sebbar's Je ne parle pas la langue de mon père and L'arabe comme un chant secret Conclusion: Sites of Embodied Memory: Towards the Possibility of "Algeria Regained" Bibliography Index About the Author

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• Authors: Vassallo, Helen Vassallo, Vassallo Helen
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9780739171424
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7142-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Algeria, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form