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Violent beginnings : literary representations of postcolonial Algeria / Lucie Knight-Santos.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight-Santos, Lucie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Algerian literature (French)--History and criticism.
- Algerian literature (French).
- Arabic literature--Algeria--History and criticism.
- Arabic literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Algeria--In literature.
- Algeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria </span><span>explores how violence, during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) to the more recent civil war (1991-2002), has shaped literary representations of both family and nation in contemporary literature. </span></span>
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Text(ure) of Torture; Chapter Two: Internal Exclusions; Chapter Three: Representations of the Postcolonial Algerian Family; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-7165-8
- OCLC:
- 894895363
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