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Memory, empire, and postcolonialism : legacies of French colonialism /Alec G Hargreaves

By: Alec G HargreavesContributor(s): Alec G HargreavesMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Series: After the empirePublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , ©2005Description: viii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780739108215Subject(s): LiteratureGenre/Form: PostcolonialismDDC classification: 840.9358 HAR

Contents:

Slavery and commemoration : remembering the French abolitionary decree 150 years later / Catherine Reinhardt -- A singular revolution / Nick Nesbitt -- The past is passé : time and memory in Maryse Condé's La belle créole / Nicole J. Simek -- France and the French in the collective memory of the Acadians / Jean-Luc Desalvo -- Film and colonial memory : la croisière noire 1924-2004 / Alison Murray Levine -- Trespass of memory : the French-Indochina war as World War II / Hee Ko -- Memory and continuity : the resistance, the Algerian War, and the Jeanson network / Marie-Pierre Ulloa -- Intimate acts and unspeakable relations : remembering torture and the war for Algerian independence / Joshua Cole -- Revisiting ghosts : Louisette Ighilahriz and the remembering of torture / Sylvie Durmelat -- The poetics of memory in Assia Djebar's La femme sans sépulture : a study in paradoxes / Florence Martin -- A literature without a name : René-Nicolas Ehni's Algérie roman / Mireille Rosello -- Decolonizing the past : re-visions of history and memory and the evolution of a (post)colonial heritage / Dayna Oscherwitz -- The Algerian war revisited / Susan Ireland -- France and Algeria : performing the "impossible memory" of a shared past / Janice Gross.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Slavery and commemoration : remembering the French abolitionary decree 150 years later / Catherine Reinhardt --
A singular revolution / Nick Nesbitt --
The past is passé : time and memory in Maryse Condé's La belle créole / Nicole J. Simek --
France and the French in the collective memory of the Acadians / Jean-Luc Desalvo --
Film and colonial memory : la croisière noire 1924-2004 / Alison Murray Levine --
Trespass of memory : the French-Indochina war as World War II / Hee Ko --
Memory and continuity : the resistance, the Algerian War, and the Jeanson network / Marie-Pierre Ulloa --
Intimate acts and unspeakable relations : remembering torture and the war for Algerian independence / Joshua Cole --
Revisiting ghosts : Louisette Ighilahriz and the remembering of torture / Sylvie Durmelat --
The poetics of memory in Assia Djebar's La femme sans sépulture : a study in paradoxes / Florence Martin --
A literature without a name : René-Nicolas Ehni's Algérie roman / Mireille Rosello --
Decolonizing the past : re-visions of history and memory and the evolution of a (post)colonial heritage / Dayna Oscherwitz --
The Algerian war revisited / Susan Ireland --
France and Algeria : performing the "impossible memory" of a shared past / Janice Gross.

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.

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