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... that is central to the cultural developments of modern literary history. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Novel, Inc. 2024 Albert Camus settler colonialism novel theory Algerian literature modernism In one of his major essays on twentieth-century literature, Fredric Jameson explores...

... , El Shakry alerts readers to the way in which this Algerian novel “recalls the Qur'an's formal qualities of multivocality, nonlinearity, asynchronicity, and grammatical or rhetorical code-switching” (89). Muhammad Barada's The Game of Forgetting does something similar not only with the Qur'an...

... . “Algerian Author Boualem Sansal Receives Top German Cultural Award.” DW Literature 16 Oct. 2011 < http://www.dw.de/algerian-author-boualem-sansal-receives-top-german-cultural-award/a-6545184 >. Baruma Ian Margalit Avishai . Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies...

..., and ironically, produces an onomatopoeic echo of the ululation associated with Algerian women, and in particular with their defiance of colonial troops ( Haddad 22 )? There is also the question of combat literature viewed from the opposing side. A pro -colonial literature also emerged from the Algerian War...

..., and the decolonization struggle has a precedent in one of Frantz Fanon's essays from the late 1950s. In “Algeria Unveiled,” despite his unsupported optimistic belief that revolution would establish gender equality, Fanon astutely observes that the battle between French colonizers and Algerians was waged through control...

... not only of the necessary and constituent relation of such a literature to the ideology of na- tionhood, but also of the form of politics expressed by literary allegories of the nation. The continued inscription of the nation in the Algerian novel results in a skewed critical reception...

..." (qtd. in Ouyang 86). Whether al-Mas'adi meant the soul of the narrative or the soul of the people is of little importance here. The key thing is the correlation between the two to the point that form expresses the soul. Kateb Yacine, an Algerian writing in French under French occupation, tried...

... of the Algerian revolution; a Pan-African exploration of the bildung form’s extranational impulses in novels by Ngugi, Djebar, Dangarembga, and Coetzee; and the “kitsch aesthetics” of Severo Sar- duy’s fictionalized escapes from Cuba to the Orient (237). If the histories and geopolitical compasses...

... of new modes of visibility and perceptibility. Le dernier e´te´ de la raison (The Last Summer of Reason), by Algerian journalist, novelist, and poet Tahar Djaout, was published posthumously in 1999, six years after his assassination by the extremist religious group Front Islamique du Salut (FIS...

... of persons who are not the white Frenchmen who have historically and until recently dominated the French literary prize system. This literature recognizes minoritarian writers such as Virginie Despentes (working class, lesbian, woman), Leïla Slimani (Franco-Moroccan, woman), Kamel Daoud (Algerian), Marie...

... distinct areas: nineteenth-century British real- ism (Elizabeth Gaskell and Thomas Hardy), contemporary postcolonial fiction (the Algerian novelist Tahar Djaout and the South African–Australian novelist J. M. Coetzee), and (in Panagia’s article) in relation to Ranciere’s own writing. Elaine...

... in America. 1835–1840 . Ed. and trans. Mansfield Harvey C. and Winthrop Delba . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2000 . Tyler Royall . The Algerine Captive, or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerians . 1797 . Introduction and notes...

...; the novel is strikingly devoid both of things and places, and we find none of that characteristic Balzacian or Flaubertian habit of describing individuals through the objects they possess (think for instance of the description of the boardinghouse in Père Goriot or the Algerian scarf that leads...

... that of Leftists like Frantz Fanon, who "had no insight into the religious feelings of the North Africans he wrote about" and "never made the link between Islam and anti-colonialism" (97), despite what must have been the plain fact that for Algerians the anti-colonial war was a jihad. Nevertheless...

... the violent strategies of the Algerian War ( 118 ); for a literary example, see André Brink's An Act of Terror , where uncommitted individuals who realize they've encountered an assassin are transformed into committed partisans on either side. 29 The “inward turn” is a phrase long used to describe...