Colonial Myths, History and Narrative

by Azzedine Haddour

This book offers a cogent and compelling critique of a wide range of colonial narratives by Albert Camus and other pied-noir writers such as Roblès, Pélégri, and Clot. Haddour shows how the imaginative and theoretical texts by these, and other authors, are marked by the crushing weight of colonial history, how they articulate the dimensions of colonial power and dominance, and how, by the same token, they constitute an agency for resistance.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Azzedine Haddour is a Senior Lecturer in French with specialism in twentieth-century French literature and thought, in post-colonial literature and theory. He has written extensively on Camus, Sartre, Fanon. His publications include: City Visions (co-editor; Longman 2000); Colonial Myths, History and Narrative (MUP, 2000); Sartre's Colonialism and Neocolonialism (co-translator, Routledge 2001); Fanon Reader (editor, Pluto Press, forthcoming, 2005)