Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism Legacies of French Colonialism

by Hargreaves, Alec; Cole, Joshua; Durmelat, Sylvie; Gross, Janice; Hargreaves, Alec G.; Ireland, Susan; Ko, Hee; Levine, Alison Murray; Martin, Florence; Nesbitt, Nick; Oscherwitz, Dayna; Reinhardt, Catherine; Rosello, Mireille; Ulloa, Marie-Pierre

• ISBN13: 9780739108208
• ISBN10: 0739108204
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-08
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Introduction	1	(10)
Alec G. Hargreaves
Part I: North America and the Caribbean
1 Slavery and Commemoration: Remembering the French Abolitionary Decree 150 Years Later	11	(26)
Catherine Reinhardt
2 A Singular Revolution	37	(14)
Nick Nesbitt
3 The Past Is passé: Time and Memory in Maryse Conde's La Belle Créole	51	(12)
Nicole J. Simek
4 France and the French in the Collective Memory of the Acadians	63	(18)
Jean-Luc Desalvo
Part II: Africa and Asia
5 Film and Colonial Memory: La Croisière noire 1924-2004	81	(17)
Alison Murray Levine
6 Trespass of Memory: The French-Indochina War as World War II	98	(14)
Hee Ko
7 Memory and Continuity: The Resistance, the Algerian War, and the Jeanson Network	112	(13)
Marie-Pierre Ulloa
8 Intimate Acts and Unspeakable Relations: Remembering Torture and the War for Algerian Independence	125	(17)
Joshua Cole
9 Revisiting Ghosts: Louisette Ighilahriz and the Remembering of Torture	142	(18)
Sylvie Durmelat
10 The Poetics of Memory in Assia Djebar's La Femme sans sépulture: A Study in Paradoxes	160	(14)
Florence Martin
11 A Literature without a Name: René-Nicolas Ehni's Algérie roman	174	(15)
Mireille Rosello
Part III: Postcolonial Migration
12 Decolonizing the Past: Re-visions of History and Memory and the Evolution of a (Post)Colonial Heritage	189	(14)
Dayna Oscherwitz
13 The Algerian War Revisited	203	(13)
Susan Ireland
14 France and Algeria: Performing the "Impossible Memory" of a Shared Past	216	(19)
Janice Gross
Index	235	(12)
About the Contributors	247