Autobiography and Independence: Self and Identity in North African Writing in French

by Debra Kelly

This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelk bir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual's relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853236593
• ISBN13: 9780853236597
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"