Helen Vassallo

The Body Besieged

The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar

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Produktbeschreibung

The Body Beseiged: The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar by Helen Vassallo analyzes the enduring legacy of the Algerian War of Independence by setting in dialogue the work of two contemporary Franco-Algerian writers, Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar. It uses the concept of "embodied memory" to examine the correlation between history and autobiography, drawing on theories of exile, wounding, embodiment, and remembrance to expose fractures in the Franco-Algerian relationship in an era of commemoration and reconciliation.

Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780739171424
• ISBN-10: 0739171429
• Artikelnr.: 35340853

Autorenporträt

Helen Vassallo is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter, UK. Her primary research interests are in autobiography, illness narratives, and legacies of conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar, Embodying
the Trauma of "Algeria Lost" Chapter 1: Embodying a Fractured Identity:
Writing on the Divide in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué and La Vie heureuse
Chapter 2: The Embodiment of Environment: Re-thinking Alienation and
Re-constructing Identity in Nina Bouraoui's Poupée Bella and Mes Mauvaises
Pensées Chapter 3: The Pain of Algeria Remembered: Vestiges of Algeria in
Exile. Leïla Sebbar's Lettres parisiennes: Histoires d'exil and Journal de
mes Algéries en France Chapter 4: A Linguistic Alienation: Finding an
Affiliation to Arabic in French. Leïla Sebbar's Je ne parle pas la langue
de mon père and L'arabe comme un chant secret Conclusion: Sites of Embodied
Memory: Towards the Possibility of "Algeria Regained" Bibliography Index
About the Author