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Writing the Black Decade
Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature
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2021
Summary
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature—and the way we read, classify, and critique literature—impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested Algerian Civil War as a case study, Joseph Ford argues that, while literature is frequently understood as an illuminating and emancipatory tool, it can, in fact, restrain our understanding of the world during a time of crisis and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to conflict in the first place. Ford demonstrates how Francophone Algerian literature, along with the cultural and academic criticism that has surrounded it, has mobilized visions of Algeria over the past thirty years that often belie the complex and multi-layered realities of power, resistance, and conflict in the region. Scholars of literature, history, Francophone studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright Year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8186-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8187-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
170
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 1 Rethinking Testimonial Literature in Rachid Mimouni, Assia Djebar, and Maïssa Bey No access Pages 33 - 60
Chapter 2 Exploring Complicity in Salim Bachi No access Pages 61 - 84
Chapter 3 Beyond a Grotesque Aesthetics of the Black Decade in Habib Ayyoub No access Pages 85 - 98
Chapter 4 Specters of the Black Decade in Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête No access Pages 99 - 120
Chapter 5 Deconstructing Oppositional Criticism in Mustapha Benfodil’s Archéologie du chaos (amoureux) No access Pages 121 - 138
