Against Autobiography: Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory

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215 Index L’Action (newspaper) xvi Agar (Memmi), xvi, xvii, 185–86n6; Memmi’s wife represented in, 53–54; plot of, 38; reception of, 39 L’âne (Chraïbi), 42 Ahmad, Aijaz, 155 Akalay, Lofti, 55 Algeria, 63, 114, 120, 122, 127, 144, 156 Alliance israélite universelle (aiu) schools, 63–64, 177n55 alterity, 76–77 Amrouche, Jean, xvi, 120, 121–22, 128 Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue fran- çaise (Senghor), 24, 115–16, 140, 141 Anthologie des écrivains français du Maghreb (Memmi) (1969), 4–7 Anthologie des écrivains maghrébins d’expression française (Memmi) (1964), 4–7, 171n63 antiauthorialism, 20, 28, 170n53 anticolonial discourse: in the 1950s, 114–24; periodization, 187n16; race and, 118–19; revolt and violence in, 122–23; Sartrean thought in, 115–18; significant essays , 119–20; and Third World, 121 antiocularcentrism, xx–xxii, xxiii, xxiv, 107. See also ocularcentrism antisubjective theory, 20 Apter, Emily, 14 Arab-Jews, xv–xvii, 5; ambiguity of “writing back” and, 63–67; colonialism and, xviii–xix; Diaspora , 64, 181–82n33; education of, 63–64, 177n55; Memmi’s portrayals of, 47–48, 112; migration to France, xvii, 53, 80, 102, 123, 176– 77n51; relationship to France, 62–64; self-representation and, 64–66; Tunisian Jewry and, xv– xvi, 181–82n33. See also Maghrebi literature Arab Spring, 154 Arnaud, Jacqueline, 72, 92 Ashcroft, Bill, 15 author(s), authorial intrusion and, 131; authorial voice, 125–38, 149– 50; death of the, 19–27; feminist theories and, 28–32 autobiography: Albert Memmi’s work viewed as, xii–xiii, 40–41; contradictory visions of nonWestern , 58–60; as Europeanoccidental genre, 56–57; fiction as, xi–xiii, 40–54; foundational, 58–60; Francophone literature viewed as, xi–xiii, 40–54, 165n19; “ghetto of,” 54–62; as textual strategy, xiv–xv 216 Index autochthonous writers, 5, 166n11 autodiegetic novels, 64–65 Baldwin, James, 147 Bandung Conference of 1955, 121 Barthes, Roland, 138; death of the author and, 20–24, 27; feminist theories and, 30–31; return of the subject and, 33 Bataille, Georges, 120 “becoming minor,” 3 Bellos, David, 1 Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 54–55 Berber resistance poetry, 117–18 Bergson, Henri, xx Bhabha, Homi, 26, 136 Biblical interpretations of vision, 74–75, 78–79, 180n11 Birth of the Clinic (Foucault), 75 “birth of the reader,” 27 “Black Orpheus,” 114, 115–16, 139– 40, 143 Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 119, 124, 140 Blair, Dorothy S., 37 Blanchot, Maurice, 71, 88–89 blindness, 71–73, 181n27; in contemporary philosophy, 76–78; Derrida and, 77–78, 83; The Pillar of Salt and writing, 78–93; as represented historically, 74–76; in The Scorpion, 92, 95–103; silence and, 88–89. See also vision Braudel, Fernand, 160 Burke, Seán, 21, 23, 28 calligrammes, 105 Camus, Albert, xvii Carnot. See lycée Carnot “The Case for Francophone Postcolonial Studies,” 17 Centre international d’études francophones (cief), 26 Centre national de la recherche scientifique (cnrs), xvii Ce que je crois (Memmi), 46, 47, 49–50, 51–52, 126 Césaire, Aimé, 109, 111, 119–20, 126, 128 “Changing the Subject,” 29 Childs, Peter, 34 Chraïbi, Driss, xi, xxiii, 40, 41–43; foundational autobiography and, 58, 60; L’âne, 42; The Simple Past, 40, 41–43, 44 colonial discourse theory, 15, 136 colonial prejudice, 132–33. See also racism colonization, xviii; anti-, xxi, xxiv– xxv, 114–24; anticolonial discourse and, 121; blindness and, 86; colonial categories and, 5–6; colonial discourse theory, 14–15; death of the author and, 19–27; depersonalization and, 68–69; economic aspect of, 142–43; independence and, 114– 15; Maghrebi Jews and, 62–64; Maghreb writers and, 3–4, 5–6; mapping francophone geographies and, 9–13; Memmi on, xxiv–xxv; poetry and, 116–17, 117–18; postcolonial francophone studies and, 13–19; prejudices and, 132–33; racism and, 110, 116, 118–19, 122, 135, 142; relationship between colonizers and colonized in, 123–24; stereotypes and, Index 217 111, 136–37; representation of French experience of, 6; representation of the colonial subject, 26; “third world,” 121; Tunisia Arabization after independence from, 102–3; Western attitudes about, 134, 135; writing as auto -emancipation from, 60–61; “writing back” against, xvi–xxiii, 3, 68, 128. See also The Colonizer and the Colonized The Colonizer and the Colonized (Memmi), xvi, xviii, xxiv–xxv, 2, 23, 109, 119, 147, 156, 185–86n6; anticolonial discourse in the 1950s and...