Tashkent Postcards: Algeria's Literature of Liberation in Languages of the USSR
Abstract
Abstract This article acknowledges the ways in which the so-called national literatures of North Africa's deterritorialized communities sit awkwardly with modern historical narratives: In this case, the presence of Algerians in Russian-language texts (as well as others) from the First Afro-Asian Writers’ Conference held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, during October 1958 serve as a complement to documentation in the archive of an independent nation. A series of text fragments (conceptualized as “postcards”) here connects individuals’ participation in this event with larger stories concerning the emergence of a postcolonial nation.
Fields of Study & Subjects
North African History and Literature
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Comparative and World Literature
Publication details
- Journal / source
- boundary 2
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 47–62
- Publication date
- 1 February 2026
- Language
- EN