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Act of Terror
Africa
African History
African Studies
Algeria
Art
Author_Amy L. Hubbell
Autobiography
Benjamin Stora
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Collective History
Colonization
Colony
Cultural Criticism
Discrimination
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Exile
Fiction
France
Francophone Literature
Francophone Studies
French Colony
French Empire
French History
French Studies
Imperialism
Inherited Memory
Leila Sebbar
Literature
Marie Cardinal
Nicole Guiraud
North Africa
Patrick Altes
Physical Abuse
Psychological Abuse
Racism
Terrorism
Trauma
Traumatic Memory
Violence
War Memories
War Stories
Zineb Sedira
Product details
- ISBN 9781496214027
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2020
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Hoarding Memory looks at the ways the stories of the Algerian War (1954–62) have proliferated among the former French citizens of Algeria. By engaging hoarding as a model, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates the simultaneously productive and destructive nature of clinging to memory. These memories present massive amounts of material, akin to the stored objects in a hoarder’s house. Through analysis of fiction, autobiography, art, and history that extensively use collecting, layering, and repetition to address painful war memories, Hubbell shows trauma can be hidden within its own representation.
Hoarding Memory dedicates chapters to specific authors and artists who use this hoarding technique: Marie Cardinal, LeÏla Sebbar, and Benjamin Stora in writing and Nicole Guiraud and Patrick Altes in art. All were born in Algeria during colonial French rule but in vastly different contexts; each suffered personal or inherited trauma from racism, physical or psychological abuse, terrorist or other violent acts of war, and exile in France. Zineb Sedira’s artwork is also included as an example of traumatic memory inherited from her parents.
Ultimately this book shows how traumatic experience can be conveyed in a seemingly open account that is compounded and compacted by the volume of words, images, and other memorial debris that testify to the pain.
Hoarding Memory dedicates chapters to specific authors and artists who use this hoarding technique: Marie Cardinal, LeÏla Sebbar, and Benjamin Stora in writing and Nicole Guiraud and Patrick Altes in art. All were born in Algeria during colonial French rule but in vastly different contexts; each suffered personal or inherited trauma from racism, physical or psychological abuse, terrorist or other violent acts of war, and exile in France. Zineb Sedira’s artwork is also included as an example of traumatic memory inherited from her parents.
Ultimately this book shows how traumatic experience can be conveyed in a seemingly open account that is compounded and compacted by the volume of words, images, and other memorial debris that testify to the pain.
Amy L. Hubbell is a senior lecturer in French at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile (Nebraska, 2015) and the coeditor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography (Nebraska, 2011).
