Postcolonial haunting and victimization Assia Djebar's new novels.

O'Riley, Michael

Postcolonial haunting and victimization Assia Djebar's new novels. - 148 p. ill.

Introduction -- Visual aesthetics and the banality of seeing -- Postcolonial haunting in La femme sans sépulture -- Victims, heroes, and specters of the colonial past in La disparition de la langue française -- Haunting translations in Les nuits de Strasbourg -- Conclusion : Victimization rhetoric: beyond haunting, toward postcolonial responsibility.

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Djebar, Assia, 1936- --Criticism and interpretation.


Postcolonialism in literature