Research Catalog

Title

Performing the pied-noir family : constructing narratives of settler memory and identity in literature and on-screen / Aoife Connolly.

Author

Connolly, Aoife

Publication

• Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

ix, 223 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"The impact of the Algerian War (1954-1962) continues to resonate in France, where the subject was long repressed in the collective psyche. This book sheds new light on a memory community at the heart of the conflict: the million European settlers known as the pieds-noirs, who migrated to France as the war reached its bloody end. Aoife Connolly draws on theories of performativity to explore autobiographical and fictional narratives by the settlers in over 30 canonical and non-canonical works of literature and film produced from the colony's imminent demise up to the present day. Connolly focuses on renewed attachment to the family in exile in a comprehensive analysis of settler masculinity, femininity, childhood, and adolescence that uncovers neglected representations, including homosexual and Jewish voices. Findings on the construction of a post-independence identity and collective memory have broader implications for communities affected by colonization and migration. Scholars of French Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Identity Studies, Memory Studies and Migration Studies will find this book particularly useful." --

Series Statement

After the empire

Uniform Title

After the empire.

Subjects

• France
• French literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• 1900-1999
• Algeria
• Colonization in literature
• Pieds-Noirs
• Emigration and immigration in motion pictures
• Emigration and immigration in literature
• Algerians in literature
• France > Colonies > Algeria
• Pieds-Noirs in literature
• French literature > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.

Contents

Camus, Meursault, Daru, Cormery: The First Pied-Noir Men -- Performing French Algerian Femininity -- Performing Pied-Noir Masculinity --Performing Childhood and Adolescence through French Algerian Narrators.

Call Number

JFE 21-3556

ISBN

• 9781498537353
• 1498537359

OCLC

1182516849

Author

Connolly, Aoife, author.

Title

Performing the pied-noir family : constructing narratives of settler memory and identity in literature and on-screen / Aoife Connolly.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

After the empire

After the empire.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3556