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History's Place
Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature
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2007
Summary
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. The North African city became a privileged place in the relationship between literacy and historical discourses in the colony. Graebner analyzes the importance of architecture and urbanism as markers of historical development, as the urban fabric and descriptions of it became signs of difference between metropole and colony. Discussing writers as diverse as Bertrand, Randau, and Kateb, this book examines how the changing Algerian city has remained the locus of a debate colored by various sorts of nostalgia. Graebner demonstrates that nostalgia was symptomatic of historical anxiety generated by colonial conditions, but with literary consequences for mainland France as well. History's Place is a comprehensive and valuable addition to the study of French literature and cultural studies.
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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1582-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5597-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
347
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Out of Time and Out of Place No access Pages 1 - 26
1 Louis Bertrand and the Building of l'Afrique latine No access Pages 27 - 70
2 Robert Randau and the Algerianisies' Algeria No access Pages 71 - 106
3 The Roman indigène: Anthropological Fiction and Its Consequences No access Pages 107 - 144
4 1930: The Cult of Memory No access Pages 145 - 190
5 Broken Idylls: Audisio, Camus, and Roblès No access Pages 191 - 252
6 Kateb Yacine and the Ruins of the Present No access Pages 253 - 284
7 Mohammed in the Métro: Remembering 17 October 1961 and the Novels of Rachid Boudjedra No access Pages 285 - 316
