Fiona Barclay

Writing Postcolonial France (eBook, ePUB)

Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 former colonies in North Africa, the book maps the complexities of contemporary France, demonstrating an emerging postcoloniality within France itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739145050
• Artikelnr.: 38223114

Autorenporträt

Fiona Barclay is lecturer in the school of languages, cultures, and religions at the University of Stirling.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Return of the Colonial in Le Clézio, Bona and
Sebbar
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: 17 October 1961: Haunting in Kettane, Sebbar, Maspero
and Daeninckx
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Writing from Algeria: Haunted Narratives in Cardinal
and Cixous
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Abjection: The Stranger Within in Prévost and Bouraoui
Chapter 6 Afterword