LEADER 03071nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910453523803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78138-616-1 010 $a1-84631-262-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541131 035 $a(EBL)380688 035 $a(OCoLC)476209664 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000070898 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070898 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10070031 035 $a(PQKB)10848122 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380688 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781386163 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL380688 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10369001 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541131 100 $a20040504d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAutobiography and independence$b[electronic resource] $eselfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French /$fDebra Kelly 210 $aLiverpool $cLiverpool University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (408 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2 ;$vv.v. 2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85323-659-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle 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: Abdelke?bir 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 330 $aThis book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelke?bir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual's relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned pri 410 0$aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2 606 $aNorth African literature (French)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNorth African literature (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a840.9961 700 $aKelly$b Debra$0857728 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453523803321 996 $aAutobiography and independence$91915137 997 $aUNINA