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UNINA9910453523803321 |
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Autore |
Kelly Debra |
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Titolo |
Autobiography and independence [[electronic resource] ] : selfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French / / Debra Kelly |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-616-1 |
1-84631-262-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2 ; ; v.v. 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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North African literature (French) - History and criticism |
Identity (Psychology) in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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