Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization
Subtitle: Assia Djebar's New Novels
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: March 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780820495361
Subjects: Islam - General; Islamic Studies; Social Science; 1936-; Criticism and interpretation; Djebar, Assia,; Postcolonialism in literature; Sociology
Description: "Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar's New Novels treats one of the central problems within the current geo-political conflict between Islam and the West: how the memory of imperialism fuels fundamentalist claims to territory and creates a paradigm of victimization through which martyrdom and terrorism prevail. Through an examination of the most recent works by the award-winning Algerian author Assia Djebar, this book considers how the culture of victimization prevails in postcolonial thought and practice, not only in the West but in formerly colonized territories as well. It examines the work of important postcolonial critics, such as Achille Mbembe and others, in dialogue with the works of Djebar, one of the most popular international postcolonial authors treating these questions from within the contemporary framework."--BOOK JACKET.