Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781793617712)

At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end of the War of Independence exiled most of them from Algeria, traumatized them in various ways, and transferred many to metropolitan France. Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities examines the legacies of these transnational identities through narratives that dissent from official histories, both in France and Algeria. This literature takes particular stories of exile and loss and constructs a memory around a Mosaic father figure embodying the native land, Algeria. Mona El Khoury argues that these filiation narratives create a postcolonial archive: a discursive foundation that makes historical minorities visible, while disrupting French and Algerian hegemonies. El Khoury questions the power of literature to repair history while contending that these literary strategies seek to do justice to the dead Algerian father, even as they valorize enduring minority identifications.

Author: Mona El Khoury
ISBN-10: 1793617716
ISBN-13: 9781793617712
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2022
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d