Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture - Archiving Postcolonial Minorities

This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. It argues that works of literature build an archive allowing the articulation of hidden histories and pays homage to the missing Algerian father, outcast of hegemonic narratives.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: From Primal Scenes to the Other('s) Archive: Mapping the (In)visibility of the Jews in Algeria through Memory. Hélène Cixous' Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage
Chapter 3: The Construction of the "Harkive:" Giving a Voice to the Harki Moze by Zahia Rahmani
Chapter 4: The 'Métis' Predicament: Nina Bouraoui's Embodied Memory of the Colonial Split
Chapter 5 "Aller Postcolonial - Retour Neocolonial"? The Ambiguous Memorial Reintegration of the Pieds-Noirs in Algeria: Boualem Sansal's L'Enfant fou de l'arbre creux
Conclusion: Mosaic fathers and spectral truths
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Mona El Khoury is assistant professor of French and Francophone literature at Tufts University.

Summary

This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. It argues that works of literature build an archive allowing the articulation of hidden histories and pays homage to the missing Algerian father, outcast of hegemonic narratives.

Product details

• Authors: Mona El Khoury
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793617699
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-769-9
• No. of pages: 316
• 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 / Minority Studies, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: general, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies