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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464924303321

Titolo

France's colonial legacies : memory, identity and narrative / / edited by Fiona Barclay ; contributors Zelie Asava [and ten others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-7083-2668-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

French and Francophone Studies

Disciplina

325.3

Soggetti

Postcolonialism - France

Electronic books.

France History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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'AlgérieChapter 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 CommemorationChapter Eleven: Crime and Penitence in Slavery Commemoration: From Political Controversy to the Politics of



Performance; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

France's Colonial Legacies offers a timely intervention in the debates around the French empire and its place in the life of the contemporary nation, 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.