Writing French Algeria

by Peter Dunwoodie

Overview

Writing French Algeria is a groundbreaking study of the European literary discourse on French Algeria between the conquest of 1830 and the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. For the first time in English, this intertextual reading reveals the debate conducted within Algeria—and between colony and metropole—that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198159728
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/18/1999
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1770L (what's this?)

About the Author

Peter Dunwoodie is Reader in European Languages at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Table of Contents

The end of El DjezaïrOrientalist writing strategiesWriting the (in)visible: exotic and colonialist fictionThe politics of polarity: the colonial novel and the AlgerianistsIthaca revisited: the Mediterranean of the École d'AlgerA dream deferredA question of belonging: the École d'Alger and the colonial presence