The Algerian new novel the poetics of a modern nation, 1950-1979 / Valerie K. Orlando.

Author/creator Orlando, Valérie, 1963-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2017]
Descriptionxx, 336 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction -- Midnight novelists -- French intellectuals, violence, and the Algerian war -- Assia Djebar's La soif and Nathalie Sarraute's Portrait d'un inconnu: defining the authentic self in the exploration of a possible world -- Claude Ollier's Le maintien de l'ordre and Kateb Yacine's Le polygone etoile: writing the modern stories that cannot be told on the blank pages of Algeria -- Mohammed Dib's Habel and the experimental Algerian novel: Third World movements and the ideological and literary "new man" -- Rachid Boudjedra's Topographie ideale pour une agression caracterisee: labyrinths of Algerian modernity -- Nabile Fares's Yahia, Pas de chance, and other experimental novels: out of the ruins emerges a new man and a new world -- Yamina Mechakra's La grotte eclatee: reclaiming Algeria through the poetics of postcolonial space -- Afterword: contemporary modes of being an Algerian author.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 313-325) and index.
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LCCN 2016055633
ISBN9780813939612 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780813939629 (softcover : acid-free paper)

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