Autobiography and independence : selfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French by Kelly, Debra, author instant download

Autobiography and independence : selfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French by Kelly, Debra, author instant download

1 online resource (vi, 400 pages), 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, Includes bibliographical references and index, Print version record, 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, Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 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, digitized 2010