Introduction -- Chapter 1. Subjectivity undone: Théophile Gautier's Algeria -- Chapter 2. The unsettled: Eugène Fromentin's haunted journeys -- Chapter 3. Battlefields and barbarians: Salammbô and Its historical contexts -- Chapter 4. Le mal de la kasbah: Pierre Loti in Algiers -- Afterword.
Summary:
"Through literary and historical readings, this book explores how France was haunted by the violence of its colonial efforts in Algeria. With a unique combination of literary, philosophical, and archival analyses, it provides a new perspective on literary works from the French colonial period, while addressing questions of history, trauma, memory, and culture"-- Provided by publishere.
Series:
After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France
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