Albert Camus the Algerian: Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice

David Carroll

Paper, 256 pages,
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April, 2007
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Preface. A Voice from the Past

Acknowledgments

Introduction. "The Algerian" in Camus

1. The Place of the Other

2. Colonial Borders

3. Exile

4. Justice or Death?

5. Terror

6. Anguish

7. Last Words

Conclusion. Terrorism and Torture: From Algeria to Iraq

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Middle Eastern literature
• Politics and Political Theory

About the Author

David Carroll is professor of French and past director of the Critical Theory Institute, former chair of the Department of French and Italian, and past director of the European Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. His books include French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture; Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida; and The Subject in Question: The Languages of Theory and the Strategies of Fiction. He is also the editor of a collection of essays entitled The States of "Theory" and is currently working on a book entitled Crises in French Identity: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Present.

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