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The Algerian Historical Novel - Linking the Past to the Present and Future (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Algerian Historical Novel - Linking the Past to the Present and Future (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Francophone Cultures & Literatures, 68
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During the last thirty years, Algerian novelists have shown and
continue to show a marked interest in the history of their country;
some of them, however, approach the past in a manner that is
significantly different from that of traditional historical
novelists. The Algerian Historical Novel: Linking the Past to the
Present and Future investigates for precisely what purpose, on what
philosophical grounds, and using what techniques, novelists Rachid
Boudjedra (La Prise de Gibraltar), Tahar Djaout (L'Invention du
desert), Assia Djebar (Loin de Medine), Waciny Laredj (La Maison
andalouse), Mohamed Sari (Pluies d'or), and Amin Zaoui (Le Dernier
juif de Tamentit) engage with the history of Algeria. It also
examines what the study of these authors can contribute to the
larger debate concerning what this type of historical fiction can
do with or reveal about the past that history as a discipline and
the traditional historical novel cannot. The author advocates that
La Prise de Gibraltar, L'Invention du desert, Loin de Medine, La
Maison andalouse, Pluies d'or, and Le Dernier juif de Tamentit are
best read as works of historiographic metafiction. He argues that
these novels combine poststructuralist ideas and postmodernist
narrative techniques to draw attention to previously neglected
people and events in history and provide revised perspectives on
them and others and, more importantly, to problematize the way
Algerian history is thought and is used to address two major social
and political concerns confronting Algerians: national identity and
religious fundamentalism. The Algerian Historical Novel: Linking
the Past to the Present and future is highly recommended to
students, scholars, and general readers interested in Algerian
literature and in historiographic metafiction.
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