Writing the Black Decade - Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature

This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature-and ideas we have about it-can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first place.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing the Black Decade
Chapter 1: Rethinking Testimonial Literature in Rachid Mimouni, Assia Djebar and Maïssa Bey
Chapter 2: Exploring Complicity in Salim Bachi
Chapter 3: Beyond a Grotesque Aesthetics of the Black Decade in Habib Ayyoub
Chapter 4: Specters of the Black Decade in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête
Chapter 5: Deconstructing Oppositional Criticism in Mustapha Benfodil's Archéologie du chaos [amoureux]
Conclusion: Beyond the Language of Crisis and Conflict
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Joseph Ford is lecturer in French studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Ford, Ford Joseph
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2022
• EAN: 9781498581882
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8188-2
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History; History, France, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism