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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Aoife Connolly is lecturer of French studies at Technological University Dublin.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Aoife Connolly
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2022
• EAN: 9781498537377
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3737-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative 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