EAN: 9783039102945

FRANCOPHONE WRITING IN TRANSITION - PETER DUNWO...

Francophone writing in Algeria has traditionally been read as grounded in displacement and
erasure of the colonised culture. Yet even the most assimilated évolué remained critical and
conscious of a dual allegiance  and even the most resistant underwent significant acculturation
which they had to integrate into their claims to rootedness in a local community (itself
jarringly reshaped by colonialism). Their writing (both fiction and non-fiction) is studied
here for the first time as the hesitant articulation of strategies of alternative
representation and  however modest  of deviance as a form of resistance. Although clearly
indebted to the objectives and constraints of the Algerianist aesthetic of the interwar years 
it introduced the Muslim Algerian subject into the colonial novel  reorienting or correcting
the colonists' vision thereof and providing an alternative to the latter's monologic
production.

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