Writing the black decade : conflict and criticism in francophone Algerian literature / Joseph Ford.

This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature-and ideas we have about it-can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discour...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ford, Joseph (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021.
Series:After the empire.
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Table of Contents:
  • <P><span>Acknowledgments</span></p><p><span>Introduction: Writing the Black Decade</span></p><p><span>Chapter 1: Rethinking Testimonial Literature in Rachid Mimouni, Assia Djebar and Maïssa Bey</span></p><p><span>Chapter 2: Exploring Complicity in Salim Bachi</span></p><p><span>Chapter 3: Beyond a Grotesque Aesthetics of the Black Decade in Habib Ayyoub</span></p><p><span>Chapter 4: Specters of the Black Decade in Kamel Daoud's </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Meursault, contre-enquête</span></p><p><span>Chapter 5: Deconstructing Oppositional Criticism in Mustapha Benfodil's </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Archéologie du chaos [amoureux]</span></p><p><span>Conclusion: Beyond the Language of Crisis and Conflict</span></p><p><span>Bibliography</span></p><p><span>About the Author</span></p>