History''s Place - Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature

Informationen zum Autor Seth Graebner is Assistant Professor of French and of International and Area Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. Klappentext History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness through literature, and that post-colonial writers revised it while retaining its dominant effect. Zusammenfassung History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness through literature! and that post-colonial writers revised it while retaining its dominant effect. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Louis Bertrand and the Building of L'Afrique latine Chapter 2 Robert Randau and the Algérianistes' Algeria Chapter 3 The Roman indigène: Anthropological Fiction and its Consequences Chapter 4 1930: The Cult of Memory Chapter 5 Broken Idylls: Audisio, Camus, and Roblès Chapter 6 Kateb Yacine and the Ruins of the Present Chapter 7 Mohammed in the Métro: Remembering 17 October 1962 in the Novels of Rachid Boudjedra

Product details

• Authors: Seth Graebner, GRAEBNER SETH
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2007
• EAN: 9780739115817
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1581-7
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies