Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture
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Algerian Jews
Algerian war
archive
Author_Mona El Khoury
Boualem Sansal
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colonial trauma
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father figures
Francophone studies
Harkis
Helene Cixous
memory
Nina Bouraoui
Pieds-Noirs
postcolonial minorities
postcolonial studies
Zahia Rahmani
Product details
- ISBN 9781793617712
- Weight: 467g
- Dimensions: 154 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end of the War of Independence exiled most of them from Algeria, traumatized them in various ways, and transferred many to metropolitan France. Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities examines the legacies of these transnational identities through narratives that dissent from official histories, both in France and Algeria. This literature takes particular stories of exile and loss and constructs a memory around a Mosaic father figure embodying the native land, Algeria. Mona El Khoury argues that these filiation narratives create a postcolonial archive: a discursive foundation that makes historical minorities visible,while disrupting French and Algerian hegemonies. El Khoury questions the power of literature to repair history while contending that these literary strategies seek to do justice to the dead Algerian father, even as they valorize enduring minority identifications.
Mona El Khoury is assistant professor of French and Francophone literature at Tufts University.
