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Zusatztext As professor Dunwoodie reminds us, there is a huge secondary literature on Camus, but there is little understanding of the general literary milieu from which he sprang. This book provides just that, but it should be enjoyed for its own sake and not just as the key to Camus. It is a fine and revealing history of how the French writers in Algeria wanted their presence in North Africa to be understood. Informationen zum Autor Peter Dunwoodie is Reader in European Languages at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Klappentext Writing French Algeria is a groundbreaking study of the European literary discourse on French Algeria between the conquest of 1830 and the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. For the first time in English, this intertextual reading reveals the debate conducted within Algeria--and between colony and metropole--that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers. Zusammenfassung Studies European literary discourse on French Algeria between 1830 and 1954. It reveals the debate within Algeria that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers, and maps representations of Algeria in the discourses of Orientalism and the Algerianists. Inhaltsverzeichnis The end of El Djezaïr Orientalist writing strategies Writing the (in)visible: exotic and colonialist fiction The politics of polarity: the colonial novel and the Algerianists Ithaca revisited: the Mediterranean of the École d'Alger A dream deferred A question of belonging: the École d'Alger and the colonial presence