France's Colonial Legacies
Memory, Identity and Narrative
Editor(s) Fiona Barclay
Language: English
Genre(s): History
Series: French and Francophone Studies
- October 2013 · 272 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9780708326671
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708326688
- · eBook - epub - 9781783165858
About The Book
Introduction: The Postcolonial Nation, Fiona Barclay
Part One: Narrative Gaps
1. Amnesia about Anglophone Africa: France’s Rhodesian mind-set, its manifestations and its legacies, 1947–58, Joanna Warson
2. From ‘écrivains coloniaux’ to écrivains de ‘langue française’: strata of un/acknowledged memories, Gabrielle Parker
Part Two: The Algerian War, Fifty Years On
3. Conflicting memories: modernisation, colonialism and the Algerian war appelés in Cinq colonnes à la une, Iain Mossman
4. Derrida’s virtual space of spectrality: cinematic haunting and the law in Mon Colonel (Herbiet, 2006), Fiona Barclay
5. ‘Le devoir de mémoire’: the poetics and politics of cultural memory in Assia Djebar’s Le Blanc de l’Algérie, Jennifer Mullen
6. (Un)packing the suitcases: postcolonial memory and iconography, William Kidd
Part Three: The Transnational Family
7. Interrogating the transnational family: memory, identity and cultural bilingualism in Sous la clarté de la lune (Traoré, 2004), Zélie Asava
8. Continuity and discontinuity in the family: looking beyond the post-colonial in Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (Claudel, 2008), Fiona Handyside
Part Four: Contemporary Commemorations
9. Anti-racism, republicanism and the Sarkozy years: SOS Racisme and the Mouvement des Indigènes de la République, Thomas Martin
10. Playing out the postcolonial: football and commemoration, Cathal Kilcline
11. Crime and penitence in slavery commemoration: from political controversy to the politics of performance, Nicola Frith
Endorsements
"In a variety of spheres--political, legal, cultural, and historiographic--debates regarding memories of empire have, over the past decade, acquired a genuine urgency in France and in the wider French-speaking world. This volume provides a useful set of essays that explore the legacies of colonialism in a wide range of locations and in a number of very difference arenas. The contributors include established scholars and some of the most important early-career researchers active in this field. The collection as whole is a significant contribution to new work in Francophone postcolonial studies."--Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
Contents
Introduction: The Postcolonial Nation Fiona Barclay Part One: Narrative Gaps 1. Amnesia about Anglophone Africa: France's Rhodesian mind-set, its manifestations and its legacies, 1947 - 58. Joanna Warson 2. From 'ecrivains coloniaux' to ecrivains de 'langue francaise': strata of un/acknowledged memories. Gabrielle Parker Part Two: The Algerian War, Fifty Years On 3. Conflicting memories: modernisation, colonialism and the Algerian war appeles in Cinq colonnes a la une. Iain Mossman 4. Derrida's virtual space of spectrality: cinematic haunting and the law in Mon Colonel (Herbiet, 2006). Fiona Barclay 5. 'Le devoir de memoire': the poetics and politics of cultural memory in Assia Djebar's Le Blanc de l'Algerie. Jennifer Mullen 6. (Un)packing the suitcases: postcolonial memory and iconography. William Kidd Part Three: The Transnational Family 7. Interrogating the transnational family: memory, identity and cultural bilingualism in Sous la clarte de la lune (Traore, 2004). Zelie Asava 8. Continuity and discontinuity in the family: looking beyond the post-colonial in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (Claudel, 2008). Fiona Handyside Part Four: Contemporary Commemorations 9. Anti-racism, republicanism and the Sarkozy years: SOS Racisme and the Mouvement des Indigenes de la Republique. Thomas Martin 10. Playing out the postcolonial: football and commemoration. Cathal Kilcline 11. Crime and penitence in slavery commemoration: from political controversy to the politics of performance. Nicola Frith