Violent Beginnings

Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria explores how violence, during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) to the more recent civil war (1991–2002), has shaped literary representations of both family and nation in contemporary literature.

Lucie Knight-Santos

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: The Text(ure) of Torture Chapter Two: Internal Exclusions Chapter Three: Representations of the Postcolonial Algerian Family Conclusion Bibliography