We are Imazigen : the development of Algerian Berber identity in twentieth-century literature and culture | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages .)

ISBN:

9780813048956, 9780813050164, 0813048958, 0813050162

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:895334326

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Local and the Global; "Nek d Amazigh": From Kabyle and Berber to Amazigh; On Terminology: Algerian, Amazigh, Arab, Berber, Indigène, Kabyle, Pied-Noir; A Word about Berbers; Overview of the Book; 1. The Emergence of Berber Consciousness, 1930-1949; Singling out the Berbers: A Singular Project?; The Berbers, the Algerianist Movement, and the École d'Alger; Rehearsal for Dialogue: Algerian Fiction, between Imitation and Malaise. The Emergence of Berber Consciousness and the Origin of the First Berber Writers2. The First Berber Francophone Writers: The Dialectics of Identity; Francophone Berber Writers: Starting the Dialogue; Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche; Marie-Louise Taos Amrouche; Mouloud Feraoun; Mouloud Mammeri; Malek Ouary; Conclusion; 3. Of Berbers and Beurs, France and Algeria: The Struggle for Identity and Rights, 1970-1990; Paradoxes; The Berber Movement in France and Algeria; Arabization; "One Only Arabizes What Is Not Arab": The Berber Academy and Beyond. Two Influential Figures of the Berber Movement: Taos Amrouche and Mouloud MammeriLa chaîne 2; The New Kabyle Song and Other Cultural Forms; The Berber Spring; From Berber to Berber-Beur; A Fertile Period, 1970 to 1980; Beurs' Unconscious Collective Memory; Berber-Beur Literature; Berber and Beur: Junction and Beyond; 4. Rebels in Print and Song: Tahar Djaout, Matoub Lounès, and the Algerian Berber Movement at the End of the Twentieth Century; Tahar Djaout: Out of the Berber Village; Matoub Lounès: The Kabyle Rebel; Djaout and Matoub: Secularism and Algerian History. 5. Assia Djebar and the Mountain Language: The Return of the RepressedAlgerian Berbers and Their Place; The Road to Vaste est la prison; Vaste est la prison: The Cumbersome Heritage, or a Genealogy of Rupture; Reappropriation or Evacuation of Berber History?; Conclusion; Of Berber Denial; Recent Development; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Language Notes:Includes passages in French and Berber followed by English translations