| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 400 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 2
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feraoun, Mouloud -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Feraoun, Mouloud. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015. |
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Memmi, Albert -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Memmi, Albert. |
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Khatibi, Abdelkebir, 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Khatibi, Abdelkebir, 1938- |
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North African literature (French) -- History and criticism.
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North African literature (French) |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelly, Debra. Autobiography and independence. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2005 9780853236597 0853236593 (OCoLC)57166667 |
| ISBN |
9781846312625 (electronic book) |
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1846312620 (electronic book) |
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0853236593 |
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9780853236597 |
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