Writing postcolonial France [electronic resource] : haunting, literature, and the Maghreb / Fiona Barclay.
Barclay, Fiona, 1973-
2011
PQ673 .B36 2011eb
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Title Writing postcolonial France [electronic resource] : haunting, literature, and the Maghreb / Fiona Barclay.
Author Barclay, Fiona, 1973-
ISBN 9780739145050 (electronic book)
0739145053 (electronic book)
9780739145036
0739145037
Publication Details Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xliv, 152 p.)
Call Number PQ673 .B36 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 843/.91409
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
The return of the colonial in Le Clézio, Bona and Sebbar
17 October 1961: haunting in Kettane, Sebbar, Maspero and Daeninckx
Writing from Algeria: haunted narratives in Cardinal and Cixous
Abjection: the stranger within in Prévost and Bouraoui.

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