Description
Book SynopsisHoarding Memory analyzes the work of Algerian-born French creators, positioning hoarding as a theoretical framework to examine the productive and destructive nature of clinging to memory through their respective modes of expression.
Trade Review"Hubbell’s scholarship, at once deeply personal and universal, will interest students and researchers in memory and postcolonial studies, history, and migration studies, also triggering introspection in anyone with a family experience of uprootedness and migration, whether forced or not."—Hélène B. Ducros,
EuropeNow“For scholars of Algerian history, literature, and ethnography, this work makes an important contribution to ongoing debates concerning the sociopolitical and historical challenges in the relationship that France and Algeria continue to endure.”—Valérie K. Orlando, author of
The Algerian New Novel: The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950–1979“
Hoarding Memory brings together literary and cinematic works, historical texts, artistic creations, and personal testimony in a convincing study. The combination of practical information and more literary and philosophical analyses provides a balanced perspective on the compelling questions of trauma and memory examined in this text.”—Alison Rice, author of
Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writings from the MaghrebTable of ContentsAcknowledgments.
Preface.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Too Much Memory and the Algerian War
Chapter 2 Marie Cardinal: Gleaning, Collecting and Hoarding the Lost Homeland.
Chapter 3 Leïla Sebbar: Churning Memory Debris.
Chapter 4 Benjamin Stora: Gangrene and the Memory of the Algerian War 100
Chapter 5 Hoarding Visual Debris from the War
Index
Works Cited
