Algeria : nation, culture and transnationalism, 1988-2015 / edited by Patrick Crowley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crowley, Patrick, 1964- editor.

Series:

Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v. 8.

Francophone postcolonial studies. New series ; Vol. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Algeria--History--1990-.

Algeria.

History.

Algeria--Foreign relations.

Algeria--Economic conditions--1962-.

Economic conditions.

Algeria--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Diplomatic relations.

Economic history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015 offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realities, the chapters in this volume serve to open up any discourse that would tie 'Algeria' to a fixed meaning or construct it in ways that neglect the weft and warp of everyday cultural production and political action. The configuration of these essays invites us to read contemporary cultural production in Algeria not as determined indices of a specific place and time (1988-2015) but as interrogations and explorations of that period and of the relationship between nation and culture. The intention of this volume is to offer historical moments, multiple contexts, hybrid forms, voices and experiences of the everyday that will prompt nuance in how we move between frames of enquiry. These chapters - written by specialists in Algerian history, politics, music, sport, youth cultures, literature, cultural associations and art - offer the granularity of microhistories, fieldwork interviews and studies of the marginal in order to break up a synthetic overview and offer keener insights into the ways in which the complexity of Algerian nation-building are culturally negotiated, public spaces are reclaimed, and Algeria reimagined through practices that draw upon the country's past and its transnational present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Nation, State and Society

In the Shadow of Revolution / James McDougall McDougall, James 27

Algeria's 'Belle Epoque': Memories of the 1970s as a Window on the Present / Ed McAllister McAllister, Ed 46

The Many (Im)possibilities of Contemporary Algerian Judaïtes / Samuel Sami Everett Everett, Samuel Sami 63

1988-1992: Multipartism, Islamism and the Descent into Civil War / Malika Rahal Rahal, Malika 81

Algerian Heritage Associations: National Identity and Rediscovering the Past / Jessica Ayesha Northey Northey, Jessica Ayesha 101

Cultural Mediations

Writing in the Aftermath of Two Wars: Algerian Modernism and the Génération '88 / Corbin Treacy Treacy, Corbin 123

The Persistence of the Image, the Lacunae of History: The Archive and Contemporary Art in Algeria (1992-2012) / Fanny Gillet Gillet, Fanny 140

Music, Borders and Nationhood in Algeria / Tony Langlois Langlois, Tony 162

Algerian Youth on the Move. Capoeira, Street Dance and Parkour: Between Integration and Contestation / Britta Hecking Hecking, Britta 184

Sport in Algeria - from National Self-assertion to Anti-state Contestation / Philip Dine Dine, Philip 203

Beyond France-Algeria; The Algerian Novel and the Transcolonial Imagination / Olivia C. Harrison Harrison, Olivia C. 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786940216

1786940213

OCLC:

999437957

Publisher Number:

99976739445