Colonial Trauma : a study of the psychic and political consequences of colonial oppression in Algeria = Le trauma colonial
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword Mariana Wikinski -- References -- Introduction : The Difficulty of Acknowledging Colonial Trauma -- The history of French colonization in Algeria: a blank space in memory and politics -- A much-needed interdisciplinary approach -- 1 Psych...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge Medford : Polity Press,
[2021]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Critical South
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| Schlagworte: | Algerians Psychoanalysis and colonialism Political violence Post-traumatic stress disorder Electronic books Algerien Kolonialismus Politische Psychologie Trauma Geschichte |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 250 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword Mariana Wikinski -- References -- Introduction : The Difficulty of Acknowledging Colonial Trauma -- The history of French colonization in Algeria: a blank space in memory and politics -- A much-needed interdisciplinary approach -- 1 Psychoanalysis and Algerian Paradoxes -- Disarray of the private and public spheres -- God's reinforcement of failing institutions -- The power of religion and the religion of power -- The literary text and the invisible staging of power -- The power of the "language, religion, and politics" (LRP) bloc as revealed by clinical psychoanalysis -- The duplicity of subjects confronting censorship from the LRP -- Abandoned citizenship and speech acts -- 2 Colonial Rupture -- The colony: the rogue child of the Enlightenment -- Colonialism's destruction of social cohesion -- A colonial republic divided, or the "duty to civilize [the] barbarians" -- 1945: a literature of refusal is born -- Nedjma: an esthetic of colonial destruction? -- Disrupting genealogical ties: the effect of "renaming" Algerians in the 1880s -- Subjective catastrophes and the disappearance of the father as symbolic reference -- Writing against anonymous filiation -- Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche: a broken voice -- 3 Colonialism Consumed by War -- 1945-1954: the necessity of war -- The impossibility of forgetting and madness, a "remedy" for disappearance -- Silencing the unforgettable mutilation of bodies -- Toulouse, 2012: the return of murder -- Constructing the "nation" -- The writer's pressing need: transform disappearance into absence -- 4 Colonialism's Devastating Effects on Post-Independence Algeria -- The mutilated body of the colonized and the hunger for reparation -- Colonial hogra and a frantic quest for legitimacy -- The "orphaning" effect of colonialism and its impact. |
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| Beschreibung: | "Originally published in French as Le trauma colonial. Une enquête sur les effets psychiques et politiques contemporains de l'oppression coloniale en Algérie © Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2018." Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 250 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781509545780 1509545786 9781509541027 1509541020 9781509541034 1509541039 |