France’s Colonial Legacies : Memory, Identity and Narrative.
Title:
France’s Colonial Legacies : Memory, Identity and Narrative.
Author:
Barclay, Fiona.
ISBN:
9780708326688
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Series:
French and Francophone Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Back cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: The Postcolonial Nation -- Chapter One: Amnesia about Anglophone Africa: France's Rhodesian Mindset, its Manifestation and Legacies -- Chapter Two: From 'Écrivains coloniaux' to Écrivainsde 'langue française': Strata of Un/acknowledged Memories -- Chapter Three: Conflicting Memories: Modernisation, Colonialism and the Algerian War Appelésin Cinq colonnes à la une -- Chapter Four: Derrida's Virtual Space of Spectrality: Cinematic Haunting and the Law in Herbiet's Mon Colonel -- Chapter Five: 'Le devoir de mémoire': the Poetics and Politics of Cultural Memory in Assia Djebar's Le Blanc de l'Algérie -- Chapter Six: (Un)packing the Suitcases: Postcolonial Memory and Iconography -- Chapter Seven: Interrogating the Transnational Family: Memory, Identity and Cultural Bilingualismin Traoré's Sous la clarté de la lune -- Chapter Eight: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Family: Looking Beyond the Post-Colonial in Claudel's Il y a longtemps que je t'aime -- Chapter Nine: Anti-racism, Republicanism and the Sarkozy Years: SOS Racisme and the Mouvement des Indigènes de la République -- Chapter Ten: Playing out the Postcolonial: Football and Commemoration -- Chapter Eleven: Crime and Penitence in Slavery Commemoration: From Political Controversy to the Politics of Performance -- Index.
Abstract:
In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the French parliament, media and universities. France's empire and the gradual process of its loss is one of the defining narratives of the contemporary nation, contributing to the construction of its image both on the international stage and at home. While certain intellectuals present the imperial period as an historical irrelevance that ended in the years following the Second World War, the contested legacies of France's colonies continue to influence the development of French society in the view of scholars of the postcolonial. This volume surveys the memorial practices and discourses that are played out in a range of arenas, drawing on the expertise of researchers working in the fields of politics, media, cultural studies, literature and film to offer a wide-ranging picture of remembrance in contemporary France.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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