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Book SynopsisDuring the last fifty years, Mouloud Feraoun, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Mammeri, and Kateb Yacine achieved significant international recognition yet remain little known in the United States. Filling a pressing need,
The Algerian Novel and Colonial Discourse provides a critical introduction and a new approach to the works of these Algerian novelists. Beginning with an overview of their novels, this book goes on to discuss critical approaches to them, challenging the widely held notion that they are merely ethnographic, upholding the status quo.
The Algerian Novel and Colonial Discourse provides a new reading, and, most significantly, argues that they are best read as witnesses to the kind of conflict Jean-François Lyotard calls a
différend a conflict in which one suffers an injustice and is at the same time deprived of the means to argue.
The Algerian Novel and Colonial Discourse then examines the issue of humanism that the novels allegedly both appeal to and re
Trade Review«This important work is a long-overdue study of the Algerian novel, which is virtually unknown in the United States. Abdelkader Aoudjit’s focused, insightful analysis of this literature through the lens of poststructuralist theory is essential reading for those seeking to broaden their knowledge of world literature.» (Karen Waters, Professor of Literature, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia)
