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Writing Postcolonial France
Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb
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2011
Summary
This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its former colonies in North Africa, the book maps the complexities of contemporary France, demonstrating an emerging postcoloniality within France itself.
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Edition
1/2011
Copyright Year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4503-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4505-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
152
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 The Return of the Colonial in Le Clézio, Bona and Sebbar No access Pages 1 - 30
2 17 October 1961: Haunting in Kettane, Sebbar, Maspero and Daeninckx No access Pages 31 - 68
3 Writing from Algeria: Haunted Narratives in Cardinal and Cixous No access Pages 69 - 98
4 Abjection: The Stranger Within in Prévost and Bouraoui No access Pages 99 - 130
