Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis
A comprehensive exploration of writing by female descendants of harkis who probe aspects of trauma, testimony and reparation through creative forms of memory (re)construction. The works analyzed interweave memory and imagination to stage dialogues across and between generations, subjectivities and temporalities, within and beyond the context of the Algerian War.
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Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis
A comprehensive exploration of writing by female descendants of harkis who probe aspects of trauma, testimony and reparation through creative forms of memory (re)construction. The works analyzed interweave memory and imagination to stage dialogues across and between generations, subjectivities and temporalities, within and beyond the context of the Algerian War.
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Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis

Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis

by Clïona Hensey
Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis

Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis

by Clïona Hensey

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A comprehensive exploration of writing by female descendants of harkis who probe aspects of trauma, testimony and reparation through creative forms of memory (re)construction. The works analyzed interweave memory and imagination to stage dialogues across and between generations, subjectivities and temporalities, within and beyond the context of the Algerian War.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781836245513
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 09/28/2025
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures , #92
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.13(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Clíona Hensey is a university teacher at University of Limerick.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction


Chapter One: Imaginative Reconstructions: (Re)writing Family (Hi)stories

Chapter Two: Reconstructive Quests: Performing In-Between Identities

Chapter Three: Intergenerational Trauma and Spectral Legacies

Chapter Four: Dialogic Testimony and Active Witnesses

Conclusion: (Re)constructive listening

Conclusion
Bibliography
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