03071nam 2200601Ia 450 991045352380332120200520144314.01-78138-616-11-84631-262-0(CKB)1000000000541131(EBL)380688(OCoLC)476209664(SSID)ssj0000070898(PQKBManifestationID)11109763(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070898(PQKBWorkID)10070031(PQKB)10848122(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127430(MiAaPQ)EBC380688(UkCbUP)CR9781781386163(Au-PeEL)EBL380688(CaPaEBR)ebr10369001(EXLCZ)99100000000054113120040504d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAutobiography and independence[electronic resource] selfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French /Debra KellyLiverpool Liverpool University Press20051 online resource (408 p.)Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2 ;v.v. 2Description based upon print version of record.0-85323-659-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 priContemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2North African literature (French)History and criticismIdentity (Psychology) in literatureElectronic books.North African literature (French)History and criticism.Identity (Psychology) in literature.840.9961Kelly Debra857728MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453523803321Autobiography and independence1915137UNINA