Autobiography and Independence
Self and Identity in North African Writing in French
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
320 pages
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6 x 9
In Autobiography and Independence, Debra Kelly examines four accomplished Francophone North African writers—Mouland Feroan, Assia Djebar, Albert Memmi, and Abdelkébir Khatibi—to illuminate the complex relationship of a writer's work to cultural and national histories. The legacies of colonialism and the difficulties of nationalism run throughout all four writers' works, yet in their striking individuality, the four demonstrate the ways in which such heritages are refracted through a writer's personal history. This book will be of interest to students of Francophone literature, colonialism, and African history and culture.
Clarisse Zimra | H-France Reviews
"A richly researched study on four authors raised as subjects of Empire in North Africa during the first half of the twentieth century. . . . In its confident grace of purpose, Autobiography and Independence offers one and all an intelligent appraisal to which we will probably return, time and again. Altogether, a bracing read!"
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