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Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler
Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen sheds new light on
the memory community of the pieds-noir from the Algerian War
(1954-1962) as it continues to resonate in France, where the
subject was initially repressed in the collective psyche. Aoife
Connolly draws on theories of performativity to explore
autobiographical and fictional narratives by the settlers in over
thirty canonical and non-canonical works of literature and film
produced from the colony's imminent demise up to the present day.
Connolly focuses on renewed attachment to the family in exile to
facilitate a comprehensive analysis of settler masculinity,
femininity, childhood, and adolescence and to uncover neglected
representations, including homosexual and Jewish voices. Connolly
argues that findings on the construction of a post-independence
identity and collective memory have broader implications for
communities affected by colonization and migration. Scholars of
literature, film, Francophone studies, and film studies will find
this book particularly useful.
Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler
Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen sheds new light on
the memory community of the pieds-noir from the Algerian War
(1954-1962) as it continues to resonate in France, where the
subject was initially repressed in the collective psyche. Aoife
Connolly draws on theories of performativity to explore
autobiographical and fictional narratives by the settlers in over
thirty canonical and non-canonical works of literature and film
produced from the colony's imminent demise up to the present day.
Connolly focuses on renewed attachment to the family in exile to
facilitate a comprehensive analysis of settler masculinity,
femininity, childhood, and adolescence and to uncover neglected
representations, including homosexual and Jewish voices. Connolly
argues that findings on the construction of a post-independence
identity and collective memory have broader implications for
communities affected by colonization and migration. Scholars of
literature, film, Francophone studies, and film studies will find
this book particularly useful.
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