Francophone Writing in Transition

The Author: Peter Dunwoodie is Professor of French literature at Goldsmiths College and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London. He is a comparatist who has published widely on French authors Albert Camus and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and on Algerian and Caribbean writing. His most recent book, Writing French Algeria, was a study of European Algerian writing between 1830 and 1954.

Contents: Colonial Algeria - Francophone writing, 1900-1945 - Francophone évolué newspapers and fiction - Literature of resistance - Colonial peritexts - The colonial chronotope - Tradition and fictional identities - Historical fiction.

«'Francophone Writing in Transition', which includes a set of valuable appendices offering historical, biographical and textual glosses, will be eagerly welcomed by historians and literary and cultural analysts as a complex case study of the effects of colonial mimicry, identification and rivalry.» (Edward Hughes, French Studies)
«Dunwoodie has produced an invaluable aid for all those with an interest in Algerian history, identity, and (post)colonialism.» (Sophie Smith, Modern Language Review)