Franco-Algerian memory and questions of gender in Ahmed Kalouaz’s Point Kilométrique 190 (1986)
This article suggests that gender and cultural memory are both performative acts and that memories of the colonial re-enact certain gender codes associated with the act of colonisation. Colonialism can be understood in terms of a gendered hierarchy: that the colonisers were imagined as virile and ma...
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University of Edinburgh
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/1200 |