The memory of colonialism in Britain and France : the sins of silence
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Comparing Memories -- Two Historiographies -- Structure -- Part I: France -- Chapter 1: Tracing Postcolonial Silence in France -- Disengagement in the Wake of Decolonisation -- Immigration and the Colonial Settlement -- Silenc...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,
2021
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies
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| Schlagworte: | Imperialism Imperialism. Historiography. France—History. Great Britain—History. Electronic books Großbritannien Frankreich Kolonialismus Kollektives Gedächtnis mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (432 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Comparing Memories -- Two Historiographies -- Structure -- Part I: France -- Chapter 1: Tracing Postcolonial Silence in France -- Disengagement in the Wake of Decolonisation -- Immigration and the Colonial Settlement -- Silence and the Generational Shift of the 1980s -- Changing Opinions about Immigration -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: A Silence that Never Was? Appropriating the Algerian War of Independence -- The Metropole and the War in Algeria -- After Algerian Independence: Moving on? -- Une guerre sans nom: The Military and the Memory of Algeria -- The Public Memory of Algeria: The Silence Busters -- Commemorating the War -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Devoir de mémoire on the Road to 2005: The Republic and the Emergence of Memory Activism -- Devoir de mémoire -- The Memory of 17 October 1961: Vichy as a Link to Memory Discourse -- The Memory of Slavery and the Taubira Law -- The Aftermath of the Taubira Law -- The Gestation of the 23 February Law: The Pied-noir Community and Devoir de Mémoire -- Earlier Pied-noir Activism: The First Memory Activists? -- National Pied-noir Memory Activism and the 2005 Law -- A Memorial Explosion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Memory as Republican Critique: Race and Anti-Racism After 2005 -- The Dieudonné Affair and the Immediate Pre-2005 Context -- The Indigènes de la République and the Colonial Republic -- The CRAN: Blackness and the Memory of Slavery -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Memory as a Marker of Political Affiliation -- The 23 February 2005 Law as a Politicising Moment -- 'No Repentance': The Symbolic Politics of the 'Neo-reactionary' Right? -- Memory and the Left -- Conclusion -- Part II: Britain -- Chapter 6: Silence I: Why Look Back in Anger? De-Prioritising Empire -- Empire Is Over: But Which Empire?. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (432 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783030637194 3030637190 9783030637187 3030637182 |