Remembering French Algeria : Pieds-Noir, identity, and exile /
"Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally "black-feet") were former French citizens of Algeria who suff...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Narrative Strategies in Rewriting Algeria
- pt. 1 REPEAT
- 2. Pieds-Noirs: Fighting against Forgetting
- 3. Fixing the Past: Marie Cardinal's La Mule de corbillard
- 4. Pleasures of a Painful Past: Writing to Remember, Writing to Forget
- pt. 2 RETURN
- 5. (Re)turning to Algeria: Nostalgia, Imagination, and Writing
- 6. Real Returns: Confrontation, Blindness, and Ruins
- 7. Return of Algeria: Relieving and Sustaining the Phantom Limb.
