Writing the Black Decade

This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature-and ideas we have about it-can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first place.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing the Black Decade
Chapter 1: Rethinking Testimonial Literature in Rachid Mimouni, Assia Djebar and Maï ssa Bey
Chapter 2: Exploring Complicity in Salim Bachi
Chapter 3: Beyond a Grotesque Aesthetics of the Black Decade in Habib Ayyoub
Chapter 4: Specters of the Black Decade in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquê te
Chapter 5: Deconstructing Oppositional Criticism in Mustapha Benfodil's Arché ologie du chaos [amoureux]
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Beyond the Language of Crisis and Conflict
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