The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937 1962 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521418911)

Recalling how they lived in a single house that was occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a multi-voice microhistory of a way of life that came to an end in the early l960s. Uprooted and dispersed, these former neighbors constantly refer back to the architecture of the home itself, which, with its internal boundaries and shared spaces, structures their memories. Here, in miniature, is a domestic history of North African Muslims, Jews and Christians living under French colonial rule.

Author: Joelle Bahloul
ISBN-10: 0521418917
ISBN-13: 9780521418911
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/1996
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.17w x 0.63d