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Remembering French Algeria Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile

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ISBN-10: 0803269900

ISBN-13: 9780803269903

Edition: N/A

Authors: Amy L. Hubbell

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Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally “black-feet”) were former French citizens of Algeria who suffered a traumatic departure from their homes and discrimination upon arrival in France. In response, the once heterogeneous group unified as a community as it struggled to maintain an identity and keep the memory of colonial Algeria alive. Remembering French Algeria examines the written and visual re-creation of Algeria by the former French citizens of Algeria from 1962 to the present. By detailing the…    
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Book details

List price: $55.00
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 6/1/2015
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long
Language: English

Amy Hubbell joined the Modern Languages Department in the Fall 2004 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2003. She taught French at Baylor University and Eastern Michigan University, and English at the Universit de Lausanne, Switzerland and the Lyc e Chateaubriand in Rennes, France before coming to Kansas State.A specialist in twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, Amy is a member of both the African and Canadian Studies faculty at KSU. Her research focuses on Pied-Noir studies and she is the author of many recent articles on Francophone studies and literature. She is currently co-editing a volume entitled Textual/Visual Selves: Photography, Art and…