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This entry concentrates on the novel by Kateb Yacine, Nedjma (1956), which came out during the Algerian war of independence against France, the colonial master, and which comments on the events which led up to the war, which began in 1954. It deals in particular with the massacres carried out by the colonial power on May 8, 1945, a key-note for this novel, when up to 20,000 Algerians died. The novel focuses on two cities in Algeria, and on the lives of four young men, and one woman, Nedjma.
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Tambling, J. (2021). Algerian Cities: Kateb Racine’s Nedjma. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_308-1
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