Architecture of Memory - A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962

Klappentext Recalling the way they lived in a single Algerian house that was occupied by several families, Jewish and Muslim, in the generation before the independence of Algeria, Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a multivocal micro-history of a way of life which came to an end in the early 1960s. Uprooted and now dispersed, these former neighbours constantly refer to the architecture of the house itself, which, with its internal boundaries and shared spaces, structures their memories. Here, in miniature, is a domestic history of North African Muslims, Jews, and Christians, living under French colonial rule. Zusammenfassung Recalling life in a single household occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families! in the generation before Algerian independence! Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a micro-history of a period which came to an end in the early 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; l. Foundations; 2. Telling places: the house as social architecture; 3. Telling people: the house and the world; 4. Domestic time; 5. The poetics of remembrance.

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• Authors: Jo Elle Bahloul, Joelle Bahloul, Joelle (Indiana University) Bahloul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.1996
• EAN: 9780521418911
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41891-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social &
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous