| Francophone Writing in Transition: Algeria 1900-1945 Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Editor), Dunwoodie, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 303910294X ISBN-13: 9783039102945 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2005 Click for more in this series: Modern French Identities, |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Literary Criticism | European - French - History | Europe - France |
| Dewey: 840.996 |
| LCCN: 2005044977 |
| Series: Modern French Identities, |
| Physical Information: 339 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - French |
| Features: Bibliography, Index |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Francophone writing in Algeria has traditionally been read as grounded in displacement and erasure of the colonised culture. Yet even the most assimilated volu remained critical and conscious of a dual allegiance; and even the most resistant underwent significant acculturation, which they had to integrate into their claims to rootedness in a local community (itself jarringly reshaped by colonialism). Their writing (both fiction and non-fiction) is studied here for the first time as the hesitant articulation of strategies of alternative representation and, however modest, of deviance as a form of resistance. Although clearly indebted to the objectives and constraints of the Algerianist aesthetic of the interwar years, it introduced the Muslim Algerian subject into the colonial novel, reorienting or correcting the colonists' vision thereof and providing an alternative to the latter's monologic production. |
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