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Violent Beginnings : Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria.

Knight-Santos, Lucie.

Violent Beginnings : Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (129 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Text(ure) of Torture -- Chapter Two: Internal Exclusions -- Chapter Three: Representations of the Postcolonial Algerian Family -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria explores how violence, during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) to the more recent civil war (1991-2002), has shaped literary representations of both family and nation in contemporary literature.

9780739171653


Arabic literature - Algeria - History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PQ3988.5.A5 K65 2014

840.9/965

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