LEADER 03666nam 22005772 450 001 9910782400403321 005 20170711141700.0 010 $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(UkCbUP)CR9781781386163 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL380688 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10369001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380688 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541131 100 $a20170307d2005|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAutobiography and independence $eselfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French /$fDebra Kelly$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 400 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary French and francophone cultures ;$v2 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017). 311 $a0-85323-659-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction : a place in the word --$g1.$tLife/writing in the colonial and postcolonial contexts --$g2.$tMouloud Feraoun : life story, life-writing, history --$g3.$tAlbert Memmi : fictions of identity and the quest for truth --$g4.$tAbdelkebir Khatibi : the deciphering of memory and the potential of postcolonial identity --$g5.$tAssia Djebar : history, selfhood and the possession of knowledge --$tConclusion : a place in the world. 330 $aThis book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelke?bir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual's relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned primarily with the writer's 'testimony value', Kelly concentrates instead on the poetic and literary qualities of each author's work, dwelling on the politics and poetics of identity, as well as the ethics and aesthetics of this literature. She includes clear discussions of key terms such as 'postcolonial', 'Francophone', and 'autobiography', which current academic discourse has rendered very complex and even opaque. The book includes a fascinating photograph of two stone tablets inscribed with Punic and Numidian scripts, now held in the British Museum, which Assia Djebar writes about at length in one of the texts studied in the book. 410 0$aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 2 606 $aNorth African literature (French)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aNorth African literature (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a840.9961 700 $aKelly$b Debra$01557247 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782400403321 996 $aAutobiography and independence$93820624 997 $aUNINA