Memories (out) of place

Franco-Judeo-Algerian autobiographical writing, 1995-2010

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3979444
AutoresRobert Watson (0000-0002-4918-0044, Vanderbilt University, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas1-22
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2011.608511
OpenAlexW2039524932
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas9

This article examines the construction of memory through relation to lost Jewish places and spaces in Algeria in recent French-language autobiographical writing of Albert Bensoussan, Alice Cherki, Annie Cohen, Jean Cohen, Attica Guedj, Benjamin Stora and Daniel Timsit. Published between 1995 and 2010, these works represent a duel interrogation of memory through evocation of place: first, remembering the ways Jews carved out space for themselves at home, at school, in spaces of leisure and sacred spaces, second, where Jews situate themselves given the lack of Jewish presence in Algeria today, and the ways the community gets forgotten in its present-day exile in France and Israel. Jewish writers retrospectively relocate themselves to Algeria in an effort to maintain their position in between Algerian Muslims and pieds-noirs, forever attached to both, but reducible to neither

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Evocation · Interrogation · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Relation (database · African history and culture studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · North African History and Literature · Philosophy