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Walls of Algiers, narratives of the city through text and image, edited by Zeynep Çelik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances Terpak

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index

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Walls of Algiers

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edited by Zeynep Çelik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances Terpak

narratives of the city through text and image

Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the "Bulwark of Islam," into "Alger la blanche," the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form. Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents. --, Publisher description

Peoples. Exoticism, erasures, and absence: the peopling of Algiers, 1830-1900 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Medina and modernity: the emergence of Muslim civil society in Algiers between the two World Wars / Omar Carlier -- Images. The promise and power of new technologies: nineteenth-century Algiers / Frances Terpak -- The houses of Algiers in French colonial discourse / Zeynep Çelik -- The invisible prison: representing Algiers on film / Eric Breitbart -- Places. Masking and unmasking the historic quarters of Algiers: the reassessment of an archive / Isabelle Grangaud -- Historic intersections: the center of Algiers / Zeynep Çelik -- Historiographies of Algiers: critical reflections / Patricia M.E. Lorcin