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Remembering French Algeria - Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile (Hardcover)
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Remembering French Algeria - Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile (Hardcover)
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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 suffered a traumatic departure from their
homes and discrimination upon arrival in France. In response, the
once heterogeneous group unified as a community as it struggled to
maintain an identity and keep the memory of colonial Algeria alive.
Remembering French Algeria examines the written and visual
re-creation of Algeria by the former French citizens of Algeria
from 1962 to the present. By detailing the preservation and
transmission of memory prompted by this traumatic experience, Amy
L. Hubbell demonstrates how colonial identity is encountered,
reworked, and sustained in Pied-Noir literature and film, with the
device of repetition functioning in these literary and visual texts
to create a unified and nostalgic version of the past. At the same
time, however, the Pieds-Noirs' compulsion to return compromises
these efforts. Taking Albert Camus's Le Mythe de Sisyphe and his
subsequent essays on ruins as a metaphor for Pied-Noir identity,
this book studies autobiographical accounts by Marie Cardinal,
Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, and Leila Sebbar, as well as
lesser-known Algerian-born French citizens, to analyze movement as
a destabilizing and productive approach to the past.
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