Writing postcolonial France [electronic resource] : haunting, literature, and the Maghreb / Fiona Barclay.

9780739145050 (electronic book)
0739145053 (electronic book)
9780739145036
0739145037

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

English

1 online resource (xliv, 152 p.)

PQ673 .B36 2011eb

843/.91409

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.

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