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dc.identifier	ECF_article_3348
dc.title	La Peste d’Albert Camus : une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie
dc.contributor.author	Berardi Alessia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2020/1/la-peste-dalbert-camus-une-analyse-de-la-societe-c/
dc.description.abstract	March 2020: as Coronavirus continues spreading across the globe, the well-known novel La Peste (1947) by Albert Camus appeals to new readers all over the world. This article offers a new modest reading of La Peste by adopting an approach which emerges from the intersection between Environmental Humanities and Postcolonial Studies. We will explore to what extent the plague is an allegory of human suffering and isolate the different levels on which the allegory may work. Furthermore, we will focus on the link between the representation of the plague outbreaking in Oran and the French-Algerian, multiethnic society. What will the ‘epidemic fiction’ reveal about social structures and practices in the context of colonial Algeria’s last years of existence, and how? The representation of the epidemic seems to mirror the inequalities of that colonial society that is not depicted in the novel, and yet it reminds the reader that societies are constructed and, thus, can be improved.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 22 \| December 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-22
dc.dateAccepted	2020-09-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-06-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2020/01/028
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Albert Camus
dc.subject	Albert Camus
dc.subject	Epidemic Fiction
dc.subject	Epidemic Fiction
dc.subject	French Algeria
dc.subject	French Algeria
dc.subject	Plague
dc.subject	Plague
dc.subject	Postcolonial Theory
dc.subject	Postcolonial Theory

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La Peste d’Albert Camus : une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie

Alessia Berardi Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

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March 2020: as Coronavirus continues spreading across the globe, the well-known novel La Peste (1947) by Albert Camus appeals to new readers all over the world. This article offers a new modest reading of La Peste by adopting an approach which emerges from the intersection between Environmental Humanities and Postcolonial Studies. We will explore to what extent the plague is an allegory of human suffering and isolate the different levels on which the allegory may work. Furthermore, we will focus on the link between the representation of the plague outbreaking in Oran and the French-Algerian, multiethnic society. What will the ‘epidemic fiction’ reveal about social structures and practices in the context of colonial Algeria’s last years of existence, and how? The representation of the epidemic seems to mirror the inequalities of that colonial society that is not depicted in the novel, and yet it reminds the reader that societies are constructed and, thus, can be improved.

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Dec. 22, 2020

Accepted

Sept. 30, 2020

Submitted

June 30, 2020

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Keywords: Epidemic Fiction • Plague • French Algeria • Postcolonial Theory • Albert Camus

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