Remembering French Algeria - Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile

Amy L. Hubbell is a lecturer in French at the University of Queensland. She is the coeditor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography (Nebraska, 2011).

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations

1. Introduction: Narrative Strategies in Rewriting Algeria

Part 1. Repeat

2. The Pieds-Noirs: Fighting against Forgetting

3. Fixing the Past: Marie Cardinal’s La Mule de corbillard

4. Pleasures of a Painful Past: Writing to Remember, Writing to Forget

Part 2. Return

5. (Re)turning to Algeria: Nostalgia, Imagination, and Writing

6. Real Returns: Confrontation, Blindness, and Ruins

7. The Return of Algeria: Relieving and Sustaining the Phantom Limb

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Amy L. Hubbell is a lecturer in French at the University of Queensland. She is the coeditor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography (Nebraska, 2011).

Product details

• Authors: Amy L Hubbell, Amy L. Hubbell
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780803264908
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6490-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Französisch, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literature - Classics / Criticism