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By Seth Graebner

History's position explores nostalgia as one of many defining facets of the connection among France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most vital colony built a historic recognition via literature, and that post-colonial writers revised it whereas conserving its dominant impression. The North African urban grew to become a privileged position within the courting among literacy and old discourses within the colony. Graebner analyzes the significance of structure and urbanism as markers of old improvement, because the city textile and outlines of it grew to become symptoms of distinction among metropole and colony. Discussing writers as different as Bertrand, Randau, and Kateb, this publication examines how the altering Algerian urban has remained the locus of a debate coloured via numerous different types of nostalgia. Graebner demonstrates that nostalgia used to be symptomatic of historic nervousness generated via colonial stipulations, yet with literary results for mainland France besides. History's position is a entire and precious addition to the learn of French literature and cultural studies.

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