Edited Book Details
Mandatory Fields
Patrick Crowley
2017
July
Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015
Liverpool University Press
Liverpool
Published
1
Optional Fields
Contemporary Algeria, Culture and Society, Transnationalism
Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988–2015 offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of methodologies — different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realities — the chapters in this volume serve to open up any discourse that might try to tie ‘Algeria’ to a fixed meaning or construct it in ways that neglect the weft and warp of everyday cultural production and political action. The configuration of these essays invites us to read contemporary cultural production in Algeria not as determined indices of a specific place and time (1988–2015) but as interrogations and explorations of that period and of the relationship between nation and culture. The intention of this volume is not to fetishize context — establishing it as the arbitrator of authentic representation — but to offer historical moments, multiple contexts, hybrid forms, voices and experiences of the everyday that will, it is hoped, prompt nuance in how we move between frames of enquiry. These chapters — written by specialists in Algerian history, politics, music, sport, youth cultures, literature, cultural associations and art — offer the granularity of microhistories, fieldwork and studies of the marginal in order to break up a synthetic overview and offer keener insights into the ways in which the complexity of Algerian history is culturally negotiated, public spaces reclaimed, and Algeria reimagined through practices that draw upon the country’s past and its transnational present.
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Grant Details
Irish Research Council