Description
Book SynopsisThe work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi’s texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities.
Trade Review"This is an important contribution to francophone studies."—Edward Kaplan,
French Forum“Against Autobiography immediately establishes its author as one of the world’s foremost authorities in the field.”—Peter Schulman, author of The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction1. Of Authors and Archives: Albert Memmi's Francophone Postcolonial
2. Writing Back to Whom? Novel Strategies of Ambiguity and the "Mark of the Plural"
3. Writing without Seeing: The Enigmas of Memmi's "Denigration of Vision"
4. From Colonizer and Colonized to Decolonization and the Decolonized: Texts, Contexts, Paratexts
Continuations: Albert Memmi in the Post-Francophone World
Notes
Works Cited
Index
