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Remembering French Algeria : Pieds-Noirs, identity, and exile
\"Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally \"black-feet\") were former French citizens of Algeria who suffered a traumatic departure from their homes and discrimination upon arrival in France. In response, the once heterogeneous group unified as a community as it struggled to maintain an identity and keep the memory of colonial Algeria alive. Remembering French Algeria examines the written and visual re-creation of Algeria by the former French citizens of Algeria from 1962 to the present. By detailing the preservation and transmission of memory prompted by this traumatic experience, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates how colonial identity is encountered, reworked, and sustained in Pied-Noir literature and film, with the device of repetition functioning in these literary and visual texts to create a unified and nostalgic version of the past. At the same time, however, the Pieds-Noirs' compulsion to return compromises these efforts. Taking Albert Camus's Le Mythe de Sisyphe and his subsequent essays on ruins as a metaphor for Pied-Noir identity, this book studies autobiographical accounts by Marie Cardinal, Jacques Derrida, Hâelلene Cixous, and Lei;la Sebbar, as well as lesser-known Algerian-born French citizens, to analyze movement as a destabilizing and productive approach to the past. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Analysis of urban multifunctional land use in historical centres: the case of the Casbah of Algiers
Urban multifunctional land use (MLU) is a concept closely related to sustainability. Research on its parameters recalls the urban parameters of mixed land use in traditional cities. In addition to the density and diversity of housing and facilities, this concept, which was developed after the new urbanism era, originated well before recent studies from a sustainable approach. It generates several benefits, such as the creation of dynamic and socially vital areas and respect for and conservation of the environment owing to diverse and rational land use. This work highlights the close relationships among sustainability, multifunctionality and traditional cities through an analytical study based on an original GIS map digitalisation of the old city of Algiers (the Ottoman Casbah).
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\The Bagnios of Algiers\ and \The Great Sultana\
Best known today as the author ofDon Quixote-one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his theatrical career was interrupted by other literary efforts. Yet, eager to prove himself as a playwright, shortly before his death he published a collection of his later plays before they were ever performed.
With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, \"The Bagnios of Algiers\" and \"The Great Sultana,\" draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes inDon Quixote. They are set in a Mediterranean world where Spain and its Muslim neighbors clashed repeatedly while still remaining in close contact, with merchants, exiles, captives, soldiers, and renegades frequently crossing between the two sides. The plays provide revealing insights into Spain's complex perception of the world of Mediterranean Islam.
Despite their considerable literary and historical interest, these two plays have never before been translated into English. This edition presents them along with an introductory essay that places them in the context of Cervantes's drama, the early modern stage, and the political and cultural relations between Christianity and Islam in the early modern period.
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