Remembering the (Post)Colonial Self: Memory and Identity in the Novels of Assia Djebar - Couverture souple

Murray, Jennifer

 
9783039113675: Remembering the (Post)Colonial Self: Memory and Identity in the Novels of Assia Djebar
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3039113674 ISBN 13 : 9783039113675
Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2008

Synopsis

The globalisation of culture and the shifting nature of national identities have propelled the stakes of memory and identity to the forefront of current intellectual debates. In recent years, the works of the Algerian francophone author Assia Djebar have reflected a growing preoccupation with the role of memory in forging a sense of individual as well as collective identity. This study traces the interrelated motifs of memory and identity in Djebar's novels, arguing the centrality of these themes to her literary project. An interdisciplinary theoretical framework positions Djebar's corpus in the wider context of philosophical and psychoanalytical debates on memory and identity. Djebar reveals that much more is at stake in discussions of the interrelationship between memory and identity than concerns of a mere cultural nature. In postcolonial Algeria, repressed memories of Algeria's colonial past are revealed as instrumental to the genealogy of the current Algerian conflict ; in this context, Djebar's poetics of memory become a ‘devoir de mémoire', an appeal for a revised Algerian historiography in which the individual takes pride of place.

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À propos de l?auteur

The Author : Jenny Murray is Lecturer in French and European Studies at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. She graduated in 2002 with a first-class honours degree in French and Media Studies from the University of Ulster, where she also completed her doctorate in 2006. She has previously published on francophone postcolonial literature. This monograph is based on her doctoral thesis.

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Éditeur
Verlag Peter Lang
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3039113674
ISBN 13 
9783039113675
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
266
Coordonnées du fabricant
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com

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