Lexington Books
Pages: 128
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-7164-6 • Hardback • October 2014 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
978-0-7391-7165-3 • eBook • October 2014 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
Lucie Knight-Santos is an instructor at the Hun School of Princeton where she teaches Arabic language, French language, and literature courses.
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
Knight-Santos’ engaging and solid study of Algeria's traumatic history through the lenses of gender and literature provides an original and provocative contribution to Arabic literary criticism and to postcolonial theory.
— Miriam Cooke, Duke University