Algeria in others' languages

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: ALGERIA IN OTHER(S') LANGUAGES

I. The Monotheism of the Other:

Language and De/Construction of

National Identity in Postcolonial Algeria

Hafid Gafaiti

2. The Algerian Linguicide

Djamila Saadi-Mokrane

3. The Impossible Wedding:

Nationalism, Languages, and

the Mother Tongue in Postcolonial Algeria

Anne-Emmanuelle Berger

PART II: SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE

4. Civil War, Private Violence, and

Cultural Socialization: Political

Violence in Algeria (I954-I988)

Omar Carlier

5. The Experience of Evidence:

Language, the Law, and

the Mockery of Justice

Ranjana Khanna

6. The Scheherazade Syndrome:

Literature and Politics

in Postcolonial Algeria

Lucette Valensi

PART III: WRITING IN OTHER(S') LANGUAGES

7. Diglossia

Abdelkebir Khatibi

8. Multilingualism and National

"Character": On Abdelkebir Khatibi's "Bilanguage"

Reda Bensmaia

9. The Names of Oran

Helene Cixous

Notes

Works Cited

Contributors

Index