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The Algerian War in French-Language Comics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

The Algerian War in French-Language Comics

The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France’s colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, and the appearance of the Third World and pan-Arabism. Algeria emerged from colonial domination to negotiate the release of American hostages in Iran during the Carter administration. Radical Islam would later rise from the ashes of Algeria’s failed democracy, leading to a civil war and the training of Algerian terrorists in Afghanistan. Moreover, the decolonization of Algeria offered an imperfect model of decolonization to other nations like South Africa that succeeded in abolishing apartheid while retaining its white settler populat...

The Color of Liberty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

The Color of Liberty

Traces the multiple histories of race and racial thinking over time in France and in Francophone areas of the globe.

Paradise Destroyed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Paradise Destroyed

"Cover"--"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "List of Maps" -- "List of Tables" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1. French Race, Tropical Space" -- "2. The Language of Citizenship" -- "3. The Calculus of Disaster" -- "4. The Political Summation" -- "5. Marianne Decapitated" -- "Epilogue" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography

Imperial Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Imperial Identities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-07-16
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  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Using colonial Algeria as the starting point of her analysis, Patricia Lorcin explores the manner in which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions are developed and used in society. She focuses on the colonial images of "good" Kabyle and "bad" Arab (usually referred to as the Kabyle Myth) and examines the circumstances out of which they arose, as well as the intellectual and ideological influences which shaped them. Her study demonstrates how these images were used to negate the underlying beliefs and values of the dominated society and to impose French cultural, social and political values. By tracing the evolution of ethnic categories over time, Lorcin reveals their inherently unstable nature and the continual process of redefinition in accordance with circumstance and political or social expediency.

Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco

Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941–1995), Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009), and Abdellatif Laâbi (1942–) are three of the most important francophone Moroccan writers to have emerged in the 1960s. Belonging to the Souffles generation, named after the journal of culture and politics founded in 1966, they played a major role in cultural decolonization and the development of Moroccan literature. This book examines their works and legacy through the dual lenses of revolt and nostalgia. By weaving together comparative close readings of their writings with an analysis of the broader historical and political context in Morocco, the book demonstrates that these writers have used revolt and nostalgia ...

Medical Imperialism in French North Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Medical Imperialism in French North Africa

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Situating Regeneration: Medicine, Science, and "Modern" Bodies -- 2. Regenerating Space: Destruction and Divided Communities -- 3. Regenerating Space, Part 2: Not All Ghettoes Are the Same -- 4. Regenerating Youth: The Role of the Alliance and the Rise of Zionism -- 5. Regenerating Women: The Assertion of Reproductive Control -- Conclusion: A Brief Reflection on Identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Imperial Identities
  • Language: en

Imperial Identities

Imperial Identities is a groundbreaking book that addresses identity formation in colonial Algeria of two predominant ethnicities and analyzes French attitudes in the context of nineteenth-century ideologies. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the process through which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions were developed and used as instruments of social control in colonial society. She examines the circumstances that gave rise to and the influences that shaped the colonial images of “good” Kabyle and “bad” Arab (usually referred to as the Kabyle myth) in Algeria. In this new edition of Imperial Identities, Lorcin addresses the related scholarship that has appeared since the book’s original publication, looks at postindependence issues relevant to the Arab/Berber question, and discusses the developments in Algeria and France connected to Arab/Berber politics, including the 1980 Berber Spring and the 1992–2002 civil war. The new edition also contains a full and updated bibliography.

Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-12-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia.

Current Geographical Publications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

Current Geographical Publications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.

La diasporisation de la littérature post-coloniale
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 285

La diasporisation de la littérature post-coloniale

Dans cette étude qui relève autant de la critique littéraire que de l'essai, Hafid Gafaïti s'appuie sur les oeuvres de Rachid Mimouni et d'Assia Djebar pour expliquer comment, à partir des bouleversements majeurs des années 1980 et 1990, la littérature post-coloniale est passée d'une écriture de la nation à une écriture de l'exil et de l'expatriation. Le lecteur trouvera ici des références et des documents jusque-là méconnus ou introuvables sur les écrivains étudiés et sur l'histoire de la littérature maghrébine post-coloniale.