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'''Malek Alloula''' (born 1937) is an Algierian poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He is best wkonwn  for his poetry and essays on philosophy.  
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'''Malek Alloula''' (born 1937) is an Algierian poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He is best known for his poetry and essays on philosophy.  
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He wrote several books, more important is ''Le Harem Colonial: Images d’un sous-érotisme'' (Editions Slatkine, Geneve-Paris, 1981).
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"As the initial title stipulates, it provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized "scenes from Algerian life" under colonial rule during the first three decades of this century (which Allouia calls the "Golden Age of the colonial postcard"), wrote Gregory Betts about ''Le Harem Colonial'' (1995).
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He wrote several books, including ''Le Harem Colonial: Images d’un sous-érotisme'' (Editions Slatkine, Geneve-Paris, 1981) which provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized scenes from Algerian life under colonial rule during the first three decades of the 20th century, which Allouia calls the 'Golden Age of the colonial postcard'.
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He is currently acting as the director of the foundation Abdelkader Alloula Foundation (Paris) in honour of his brother play writer and stage director Abdelkader Alloula.
 
He is currently acting as the director of the foundation Abdelkader Alloula Foundation (Paris) in honour of his brother play writer and stage director Abdelkader Alloula.
  

Revision as of 19:16, 6 December 2013

Malek Alloula (born 1937) is an Algierian poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He is best known for his poetry and essays on philosophy.

He wrote several books, including Le Harem Colonial: Images d’un sous-érotisme (Editions Slatkine, Geneve-Paris, 1981) which provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized scenes from Algerian life under colonial rule during the first three decades of the 20th century, which Allouia calls the 'Golden Age of the colonial postcard'.

He is currently acting as the director of the foundation Abdelkader Alloula Foundation (Paris) in honour of his brother play writer and stage director Abdelkader Alloula.

Literature

Books
On Alloula

External links


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