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BOUDJEDRA, Rachid
MACHELIDON, Véronique (Traduction)
Mines de rien: Underground, Unknown, Unseen
 
Lieu : New Orleans,
Éditeur : University Press of the South,
Année : 2009
ISBN : 1-931948-82-8
Pages : 78 p.
Type : Théâtre
Collection, autres éditions : ,
Langue : Anglais
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The play Underground, Unknown, Unseen stages the thirty-year saga of demographic exchanges between Europe and North Africa, as seen through the lens of two generations of Algerian immigrants to France. From the character of Ali, who came in 1964 to work in the coalfields, to the young doctor Nadia, who fled Islamic terrorism thirty years later, Boudjedra paints a broad canvas of the effects of decolonization, immigration, and the bloody civil war that ripped his country apart in the 1990s.

The mine as a metaphor for Europe’s colonial entreprise and as a microcosm for ethnic and cultural diversity, becomes Boudjedra’s haunting setting where male and female characters, French and Algerian miners, and first- and second-generation immigrants sort out the meaning of uprootedness in their own lives and discuss the possibility of integration for the generations to come.