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Author Knight-Santos, Lucie, author

Title Violent beginnings : literary representations of postcolonial Algeria / Lucie Knight-Santos
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
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Contents The text(ure) of torture -- Internal exclusions -- Representations of the postcolonial Algerian family
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Algerian literature (French) -- History and criticism
Arabic literature -- Algeria -- History and criticism
Postcolonialism in literature.
Violence in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Algerian literature (French)
Arabic literature
Literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Violence in literature
SUBJECT Algeria -- In literature
Subject Algeria
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780739171653
0739171658