Autobiography and Independence : Selfhood and Creativity in Postcolonial African Writing in French.
This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelkbir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individuals relationship to history. The book places these...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2.
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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, Abdelkbir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individuals 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846312625 1846312620 0853236593 9780853236597 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |