Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature-and the way we read, classify, and critique literature-impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict.
Using the bitterly-contested Algerian Civil War as a case study, Joseph Ford argues that, while Literature is frequently understood as an illuminating and emancipatory tool, it can, in fact, restrain our understanding of the world during a t.
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature-and the way we read, classify, and critique literature-impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict