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History's Place:
Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature
BY SETH GRAEBNER
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007
356 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-1582-4 paper.
Seth Graebner sets out a number of objectives in this study of Algerian literature: the exploration of the manifestations of nostalgia for vanished cultures and places, regarded as one of the defining tropes of the relationship between France and North Africa and seen as taking the Algerian city as a privileged place for debates about the relationship between literary and historical discourses; the...
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