Algeria – Nation, Culture and Transnationalism: 1988–2015 Crowley Hardback

AlgeriaNation, Culture and Transnationalism: 1988-2015\nAuthor(s): Patrick Crowley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781786940216, 978-1786940216\nSynopsis\nAlgeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism [tel] offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realities, the chapters in this volume serve to open up any discourse that would 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 [tel] but as interrogations and explorations of that period and of the relationship between nation and culture. The intention of this volume is to offer historical moments, multiple contexts, .