Memory, empire, and postcolonialism: legacies of French colonialism
Память, империя и постколониализм: наследие французского колониализма
2006-03-01
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Algerian WarFrench colonialismFrench-Indochina Warcolonial memorypostcolonial migration
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Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 North America and the Caribbean Chapter 3 Slavery and Commemoration: Remembering the French Abolitionary Decree 150 Years Later Chapter 4 A Singular Revolution Chapter 5 The Past is passe: Time and in Maryse Conde's La Belle Creole Chapter 6 France and the French in Collective of the Acadians Part 7 Africa and Asia Chapter 8 Film and Colonial Memory: La Croisiere Noire 1924-2004 Chapter 9 Trespass of Memory: The French-Indochina War as World War II Chapter 10 and Continuity: The Resistance, the Algerian War, and the Jeanson Network Chapter 11 Intimate Acts and Unspeakable Relations: Remembering Torture and the War for Algerian Independence Chapter 12 Revisiting Ghosts: Louisette Ighilahriz and the Remembering of Torture Chapter 13 The Poetics of in Assia Djebar'sLa Femme sans sepulture: A Study in Paradoxes Chapter 14 A Literature without a Name: Rene-Nicolas Ehni's Algerie roman Part 15 Postcolonial Migration Chapter 16 Decolonizing the Past: Re-visions of History and and the Evolution of a (Post)Colonial Heritage Chapter 17 The Algerian War Revisited Chapter 18 France and Algeria: Performing the Impossible Memory of a Shared Past
Key Findings
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It analyzes competing memories of slavery, abolition, revolution, and colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.
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It argues that postcolonial memory involves ongoing revisions of history and attempts to negotiate unresolved colonial legacies and heritage.
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The chapters show how film, literature, and commemorative practices revisit colonial violence, including the French-Indochina War, the Algerian War, and torture.
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The volume emphasizes tensions between French and formerly colonized perspectives when representing resistance, migration, and a shared Franco-Algerian past.
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The volume examines how French colonialism continues to shape collective memory, historical narratives, cultural works, and postcolonial identities.
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legacies of French colonialism
Research Subject
memory, commemoration, and representations of French colonial history and its postcolonial consequences
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