
Reviews
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Introduction: The Postcolonial Nation
Fiona Barclay
Part One: Narrative Gaps
1 Amnesia about Anglophone Africa: France’s Rhodesian Mindset, its Manifestation and Legacies
Joanna Warson
2 From ‘Écrivains coloniaux’ to Écrivains de ‘langue française’: Strata of Un/acknowledged Memories
Gabrielle Parker
Part Two: The Algerian Way, Fifty Years On
3 Conflicting Memories: Modernisation, Colonialism and the Algerian War Appelés in Cinq colones á la une
Iain Mossman
4 Derrida’s Virtual Space of Spectrality: Cinematic Haunting and the Law in Herbiet’s Mon Colonel
Fiona Barclay
5 ‘Le devoir de mémoire’: the Poetics and Politics of Cultural Memory in Assia Djebar’s Le Blanc de l’Algérie
Jenny Mullen
6 (Un)packing the Suitcases: Postcolonial Memory and Iconography
William Kidd
Part Three: The Transnational Family
7 Interrogating the Transnational Family: Memory, Identity and Cultural Bilingualism in Traoré’s Sous la clarté de la lune
Zéllie Asava
8 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Family: Looking Beyond the Post-Colonial in Claudel’s Il y a longtempsque je t’aime
Fiona Handyside
Part Four: Contemporary Commemorations
9 Anti-racism, Republicanism and the Sarkozy Years: SOS Racisme and the Mouvement des Indigénes de la République
Thomas Martin
10 Playing out the Postcolonial: Football and Commemoration
Cathal Kilcline
11 Crime and Penitence in Slave Commemoration: From Political Controversy to the Politics of Performance
Nicola Frith
Index
Be the first to know
Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists!