Overview
This is the first full-length survey in any language of the fiction and film generated in France by the Algerian war (1954-1962). Although part of a much wider process of decolonization, the conflict was so traumatic that it brought France to the verge of civil war and its memory continues to haunt French society today. Like America's experience in Vietnam, it has been understood as a paradigm of the collapse of Western certainties in the post-war period. Philip Dine's ground-breaking study examines the novels and films which deal with the war in an attempt to understand the lasting impact of the conflict. By locating texts within institutional and public discourses, it addresses issues of historical agency and ideological dissemination and casts light on the mechanics of literary mystification. Among the writers discussed are Camus, Etecherelli, Marie Cardinal, Genet, Millecam, Perec, and Jules Roy, and the book also explores the films of directors including Godard, Ophuls, Varda, Schoendorffer, Marker, Resnais, and Demy. All quotations in French are accompanied by English translations. Innovative and accessible, Images of the Algerian War will interest all teachers and students of the culture and politics of modern France, together with all those concerned with issues of decolonization.
Full Product Details
Author: Philip Dine (Lecturer in French, Lecturer in French, Loughborough University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.492kg
ISBN: 9780198158752
ISBN 10: 0198158750
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 15 December 1994
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
[A] continuously intelligent and engrossing study. --Times Higher Education Supplement<br> Dine has written a fascinating overview....A very readable book, useful for collections of contemporary history as well as French literature. --Choice<br> Dine has done us alla service by illuminating and discussing this literature with perception and insight. --Journal of Military History<br>
[A] continuously intelligent and engrossing study. --Times Higher Education Supplement Dine has written a fascinating overview....A very readable book, useful for collections of contemporary history as well as French literature. --Choice Dine has done us alla service by illuminating and discussing this literature with perception and insight. --Journal of Military History
Dine has done us all a service by illuminating and discussing this literature with perception and insight...excellent study of how a nation tries and fails to come to terms with a painful experience of its past Journal of Military History 'continuously intelligent and engrossing study' Times Higher Education Supplement Dine's literary study is excellent ... his selection is generous and there is much to learn by historians about the overlapping of witnesses' memoirs and novelists' inventions: after a crisis which involved a full generation of conscripts, it is often difficult to disentangle fiction for factual data. Pierre Sorlin, University of Paris, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1996 closely researched study ... Political complexities and the problematics of literary text are both impressively dealt with. Forum for Modern Language Studies, XXXIII,2, 1997
