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Against Autobiography

Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory

By: Lia Nicole Brozgal

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Against Autobiography

Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory

By: Lia Nicole Brozgal

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, 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. Calling attention to the ambiguous status of autobiographical discursive and textual elements in Memmi’s work, Brozgal shifts the focus from the author to theoretical questions. Against Autobiography places Memmi’s writing and thought in dialogue with several major critical shifts in the late twentieth-century literary and cultural landscape. These shifts include the crisis of the authorial subject; the interrogation of the form of the novel; the resistance to the hegemony of vision; and the critique of colonialism. Showing how Memmi’s novels and essays produce theories that resonate both within and beyond their original contexts, Brozgal argues for allowing works of francophone Maghrebi literature to be read as complex literary objects, that is, not simply as ethnographic curios but as generating elements of literary theory on their own terms.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496208986

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9781496208989

A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar

By: Lia Brozgal

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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar

By: Lia Brozgal

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars, and intellectuals who came of age in lands where Islam was the dominant religion and everyday life was infused with the politics of the French imperial project. Prompted by novelist Leïla Sebbar to reflect on their childhoods, these writers offer literary portraits that gesture to a universal condition while also shedding light on the exceptional nature of certain experiences. The childhoods captured here are undeniably Jewish, but they are also Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish; each essay thus testifies to the multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith community into which its author was born. The present translation makes this unique collection available to an English-speaking public for the first time. The original version, published in French in 2012, was awarded the Prix Haïm Zafrani, a prize given by the Elie Wiesel Institute of Jewish Studies to a literary project that valorizes Jewish civilization in the Muslim world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520393406

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9780520393400

Absent the Archive

Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961

By: Lia Brozgal

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Absent the Archive

Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961

By: Lia Brozgal

Absent the Archive is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. This corpus, or anarchive, includes a variety of cultural texts whose formal, diegetic, and discursive strategies represent the massacre and its erasure, its “becoming invisible,” and its afterlives as a trace, a memory, a sign.

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Liverpool University Press

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178962262X

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Absent the Archive

Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961

By: Lia Brozgal

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Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961

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Against Autobiography

Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory

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