Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism

Legacies of French Colonialism
Herausgeber: Hargreaves, Alec

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Produktbeschreibung

Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. This interdisciplinary volume explores the multiple forms of this upsurge and the forces driving it in popular culture, scholarly research, and public commemorations.

Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780739108215
• ISBN-10: 0739108212
• Artikelnr.: 22062143

Autorenporträt

Alec G. Hargreaves is Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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 passé:
Time and Memory in Maryse Condé's La Belle Créole Chapter 6 France and the
French in Collective Memory of the Acadians Part 7 Africa and Asia Chapter
8 Film and Colonial Memory: La Croisière Noire 1924-2004 Chapter 9 Trespass
of Memory: The French-Indochina War as World War II Chapter 10 Memory 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 Memory
in Assia Djebar'sLa Femme sans sépulture: A Study in Paradoxes Chapter 14 A
Literature without a Name: René-Nicolas Ehni's Algérie roman Part 15
Postcolonial Migration Chapter 16 Decolonizing the Past: Re-visions of
History and Memory 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