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Writing French Algeria

Author: Peter Dunwoodie
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Peter Dunwoodie examines the debate within Algeria that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers, and maps representations of Algeria in the literature and discourses of Orientalism and the Algerianists.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Dunwoodie, Peter.
Writing French Algeria.
Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998
(OCoLC)607116156
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Dunwoodie
ISBN: 0198159722 9780198159728
OCLC Number: 39533929
Description: vi, 334 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The end of El Djezair --
Orientalist writing strategies --
Writing the (in)visible: exotic and colonialist fiction --
The politics of polarity: the colonial novel and the Algerianists --
Ithaca revisited: the Mediterranean of the Ecole d'Alger --
A dream deferred --
A question of belonging: the Ecole d'Alger and the colonial presence.
Responsibility: Peter Dunwoodie.
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Abstract:

Peter Dunwoodie examines the debate within Algeria that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers, and maps representations of Algeria in the literature and discourses of Orientalism and the Algerianists.

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