| Between Sea and Sahara: An Algerian Journal Contributor(s): Fromentin, Eugene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821412728 ISBN-13: 9780821412725 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2000 Annotation: Known for his paintings and writings on North Africa, Fromentin (1820-1876) was a French orientalist whose artistic work was influential in shaping Western stereotypes about the East. His semi-fictional travelogue, first published in 1859, offers insight into the French imagination and provides keen observations of Algerian culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Africa - General - Literary Collections | European - General |
| Dewey: 916.504 |
| LCCN: 98-45880 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.91 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Between Sea and Sahara gives us Algeria in the third decade of colonization. Written in the 1850s by the gifted painter and extraordinary writer Eugene Fromentin, the many-faceted work is travelogue, fiction, stylized memoir, and essay on art. Fromentin paints a compelling word picture of Algeria and its people, questioning France's-and his own-role there. He shows French dynamism tending to arrogance, tinged with malaise, as well as the complexity of the Algerians and their canny survival tactics. In his efforts to capture the non-Western world on paper as well as on canvas, Fromentin reveals much about the roots of a colonial relationship that continues to affect the Algeria of today. He also reveals his own development as painter, writer-and human being. Now available for the first time in English, Between Sea and Sahara appeals to today's reader on many levels-as a story of color, romance, and dramatic tension; as an eyewitness account of the colonial experience in Algeria; as a study in trans-genre text, foreshadowing Fromentin's psychological masterpiece, the novel Dominique. And, as Val rie Orlando points out in her introduction, Fromentin opens a window on the ethos informing the fashion of Orientalism that flourished with colonialism. |
