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Knight-Santos Lucie |
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Titolo |
Violent beginnings : literary representations of postcolonial Algeria / / Lucie Knight-Santos |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (129 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Algerian literature (French) - History and criticism |
Arabic literature - Algeria - History and criticism |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Violence in literature |
Algeria In literature |
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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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Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Text(ure) of Torture; Chapter Two: Internal Exclusions; Chapter Three: Representations of the Postcolonial Algerian Family; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria </span><span>explores how violence, during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) to the more recent civil war (1991-2002), has shaped literary representations of both family and nation in contemporary literature. </span></span> |
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