Writing French Algeria

ISBN-13: 9780198159728 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 344 str.

Peter Dunwoodie

Opis

Writing French Algeria is a groundbreaking study of the European literary discourse on French Algeria between the conquest of 1830 and the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. For the first time in English, this intertextual reading reveals the debate conducted within Algeria--and between colony and metropole--that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers.

Recenzje

As professor Dunwoodie reminds us, there is a huge secondary literature on Camus, but there is little understanding of the general literary milieu from which he sprang. This book provides just that, but it should be enjoyed for its own sake and not just as the key to Camus. It is a fine and revealing history of how the French writers in Algeria wanted their presence in North Africa to be understood.

O autorze

Peter Dunwoodie is Reader in European Languages at Goldsmiths College, University of London.