Remembering French Algeria Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile |
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| Author:
| Hubbell, Amy L. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-6490-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $79.20 |
Book Description:
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Examines the written and visual re-creation of Algeria by the former French citizens of Algeria from 1962 to the present. By detailing the preservation and transmission of memory prompted by this traumatic experience, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates how colonial identity is encountered, reworked, and sustained in Pied-Noir literature and film, with the device of repetition functioning in these literary and visual texts to create a unified and nostalgic version of the past.
Examines the written and visual re-creation of Algeria by the former French citizens of Algeria from 1962 to the present. By detailing the preservation and transmission of memory prompted by this traumatic experience, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates how colonial identity is encountered, reworked, and sustained in Pied-Noir literature and film, with the device of repetition functioning in these literary and visual texts to create a unified and nostalgic version of the past.