France’s Colonial Legacies

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