Autobiography and independence : selfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French / Debra Kelly.

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Kelly, Debra [author.]

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TextSeries: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 2.Publication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 400 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781846312625
1846312620
1781386161
9781781386163

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Autobiography and independence.DDC classification:

840.9961 22

LOC classification:

PQ3988.5.N6 K45 2005eb

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18.26

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Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Copyright Acknowledgements; Introduction : A Place in the Word; 1 : Life/Writing in the Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts; 2 : Mouloud Feraoun : Life Story, Life-Writing, History; 3: Albert Memmi : Fictions of Identity and the Quest for Truth; 4 : Abdelkébir Khatibi : The Deciphering of Memory and the Potential of Postcolonial Identity; 5: Assia Djebar : History, Selfhood and the Possession of Knowledge; Conclusion : A Place in the World; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Summary: This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelkébir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual?s relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned pri.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelkébir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual?s relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned pri.

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