Remembering French Algeria

Amy L. Hubbell is a lecturer in French at the University of Queensland. She is the coeditor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography (Nebraska, 2011).

"Hubbell's Remembering French Algeria is an intriguing and important contribution to scholarship on the representation of Algeria in literature and film."-D. L. Boudreau, Choice "Perhaps the most important work of literary criticism to date devoted to examining the veritable richness and inherent paradoxes of Pied-Noir literature in all of its extremely divergent forms."-Keith Moser, Contemporary French Civilization "[Remembering French Algeria] provides an interesting compilation of pied-noir narratives, and the fact that the author has made them available in English makes this book particularly useful on undergraduate courses for non-French speakers."-Natalya Vince, Modern and Contemporary France "Hubbell's book tackles a challenging topic and does a great job framing and analyzing the pied-noir experience from a mostly psychoanalytic perspective."-Fazia AÏtel, French Review "Remembering French Algeria is a relevant resource and a valuable tool for both specialists in the field of Postcolonial Studies and those with general interests in literature, history, and ethics."-Anna Rocca, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature "This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking study that contains remarkable insights. Remembering French Algeria makes an important contribution to current scholarship on postcolonial relations between France and Algeria and fills an important gap in that scholarship by focusing specifically on the oft-overlooked category of the community of Pieds-Noirs."—Alison Rice, author of Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb

• Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translations 1. Introduction: Narrative Strategies in Rewriting Algeria Part 1. Repeat2. The Pieds-Noirs: Fighting against Forgetting 3. Fixing the Past: Marie Cardinal’s La Mule de corbillard 4. Pleasures of a Painful Past: Writing to Remember, Writing to Forget Part 2. Return5. (Re)turning to Algeria: Nostalgia, Imagination, and Writing 6. Real Returns: Confrontation, Blindness, and Ruins 7. The Return of Algeria: Relieving and Sustaining the Phantom Limb Notes Bibliography Index