| Writing French Algeria Contributor(s): Dunwoodie, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198159722 ISBN-13: 9780198159728 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: Writing French Algeria is a groundbreaking study of the European literary discourse on French Algeria between the conquest of 1830 and the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. For the first time in English, this intertextual reading reveals the debate conducted within Algeria--and between colony and metropole--that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 840.996 |
| LCCN: 98037816 |
| Lexile Measure: 1770 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.28" W x 8.32" (1.23 lbs) 342 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Writing French Algeria is a groundbreaking study of the European literary discourse on French Algeria between the conquest of 1830 and the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. For the first time in English, this intertextual reading reveals the debate conducted within Algeria--and between colony and metropole--that aimed to forge an independent cultural identity for the European settlers. |