Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization
Assia Djebar's New Novels
Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar's New Novels treats one of the central problems within the current geo-political conflict between Islam and the West: how the memory of imperialism fuels fundamentalist claims to territory and creates a paradigm of victimization through which martyrdom and terrorism prevail. Through an examination of the most recent works by the award-winning Algerian author Assia Djebar, this book considers how the culture of victimization prevails in postcolonial thought and practice, not only in the West but in formerly colonized territories as well. It examines the work of important postcolonial critic…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8204-9536-1
- EAN: 9780820495361
- Produktnummer: 19045869
- Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 148 S.
- Masse: H15.9 cm x B23.6 cm x D1.5 cm 434 g
- Gewicht: 434
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
The Author: Michael O'Riley is Associate Professor of Francophone Literature and Comparative Literature at The Colorado College. He is the author of Francophone Culture and the Postcolonial Fascination with Ethnic Crimes and Colonial Aura (2005) and of numerous articles on postcolonial theory and literature. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for his work on cultural memory.
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