Performing the Pied-Noir Family - Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature

Informationen zum Autor Aoife Connolly is lecturer of French studies at Technological University Dublin. Klappentext This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs following their mass migration to France in 1962. It breaks new ground by focusing on the family trope, including gender and youth, to reveal constructions of collective memory and identity post-Algerian independence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Camus, Meursault, Daru, Cormery: The First Pied-Noir Men Chapter 2: Performing French Algerian Femininity Chapter 3: Performing Pied-Noir Masculinity Chapter 4: Performing Childhood and Adolescence through French Algerian Narrators Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Aoife Connolly
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781498537353
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3735-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Sociology: family & relationships, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships