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.
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Mona El Khoury is assistant professor of French and Francophone literature at Tufts University.
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: From Primal Scenes to the Other('s) Archive: Mapping the (In)visibility of the Jews in Algeria through Memory. Hélène Cixous' Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage
Chapter 3: The Construction of the Harkive: Giving a Voice to the Harki Moze by Zahia Rahmani
Chapter 4: The 'Métis' Predicament: Nina Bouraoui's Embodied Memory of the Colonial Split
Chapter 5 Aller Postcolonial Retour Neocolonial? The Ambiguous Memorial Reintegration of the Pieds-Noirs in Algeria: Boualem Sansal's L'Enfant fou de l'arbre creux
Conclusion: Mosaic fathers and spectral truths
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