Decolonizing memory : Algeria and the politics of testimony / Jill Jarvis.

• Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Future of Memory -- Chapter 1. Remnants of Muslims -- Chapter 2. Translatable Justice -- Chapter 3. Mourning Revolt -- Chapter 4. Open Elegy -- Conclusion. Prisons without Walls. 

• "Decolonizing Memory argues that writers and artists have played an important role in cultivating historical memory and nurturing political resistance in Algeria, and shows that the magnitude of the violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria is such that only aesthetic works, in particular literature, have been able to register its enduring effects. Through readings of French and Arabic texts by writers including Zahia Rahmani, Yamina Mechakra, Waciny Laredj, Fadhma Aíth Mansour Amrouche, Frantz Fanon, Assia Djebar, and Samira Negrouche, the book centers Algeria as an important nexus of aesthetic creation and theoretical contestation. Its argument foregrounds the impasses and disjunctions brought to light by this constellation of literary texts to demonstrate how Algerian writers have transformed the genre of testimony in ways that both defy imposed linguistic partitions and dispute the authority of the state to be the ultimate arbiter of justice"-- 

Ämnesord

Imperialism i litteraturen  (sao)

Litteratur och historia  (sao)

Litteratur och politik  (sao)

Kollektivt minne och litteratur  (sao)

Afrikansk litteratur (franskspråkig)  (sao)

Fransk litteratur  (sao)

Imperialism in literature.  (LCSH)

Collective memory and literature  -- Algeria. (LCSH)

Collective memory  -- Political aspects -- Algeria. (LCSH)

Literature and history  -- Algeria. (LCSH)

Politics and literature  -- Algeria. (LCSH)

African literature (French)  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

French literature  -- Algeria -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Kollektivt minne  -- politiska aspekter (sao)

French literature  (LCSH)

Imperialism in literature  (LCSH)

Politics and literature  (LCSH)

Literature and history  (LCSH)

African literature (French)  (LCSH)

Collective memory and literature  (LCSH)

Algeriet  (sao)

Klassifikation

PN56.C618 (LCC)

840.9965 (DDC)