L'autre, c'est soi-même : l'identité postcoloniale dans un siècle de guerre

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«L'autre, c'est soi-même : l'identité postcoloniale dans un siècle de guerre» is David Lohrey's essay, paperback from Editions Notre Savoir (292 pages).

Study of how war shapes postcolonial identity in twentieth-century African and American literature. Analyses Achebe, Coetzee, Bellow and Morrison as chroniclers of collective trauma and survival, and argues that historical memory distorts narratives of conflicts such as the world wars, Rwanda or Ukraine.

Book in French; the author, born in Melbourne in 1958, earned his PhD in History from UCLA and is a professor at the University of Sydney. Publication date: 17 June 2025.

For readers interested in philosophy, postcolonial studies and the literary representation of war and memory in the twentieth century.