Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe write by Andrea L. Smith. This book was released on 2006-08-21. Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe and North Africa in a creative and innovative fashion." —Douglas Holmes, Binghamton University Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. In France today, these pieds-noirs are often associated with "Mediterranean" qualities, the persisting tensions surrounding the French-Algerian War, and far-right, anti-immigrant politics. Through their social clubs, they have forged an identity in which Malta, not Algeria, is the unifying ancestral homeland. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of colonialism on Europe itself. She explores nostalgia and collective memory; the settlers' liminal position in the colony as subalterns and colonists; and selective forgetting, in which Malta replaces Algeria, the "true" homeland, which is now inaccessible, fraught with guilt and contradiction. The study provides insight into race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context for understanding political trends in contemporary France.
(Post) Colonialism Across Europe
(Post) Colonialism Across Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook (Post) Colonialism Across Europe write by Dirk Göttsche. This book was released on 2020. (Post) Colonialism Across Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France
The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France write by Itay Lotem. This book was released on 2021-03-12. The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France. By comparing these two former colonial powers, the author tells two distinct stories about coming to terms with the legacies of colonialism, the role of silence and the breaking thereof. Examining memory through the stories of people who incited public conversation on colonialism: activists; politicians; journalists; and professional historians, this book argues that these actors mobilised the colonial past to make sense of national identity, race and belonging in the present. In focusing on memory as an ongoing, politicised public debate, the book examines the afterlife of colonial history as an element of political and social discourse that depends on actors’ goals and priorities. A thought-provoking and powerful read that explores the divisive legacies of colonialism through oral history, this book will appeal to those researching imperialism, collective memory and cultural identity.
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum write by Katrin Sieg. This book was released on 2021-12-06. Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures write by . This book was released on 2015-07-28. Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collective monograph analyzes post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe through the paradigm of postcoloniality. Based on the assumption that both Western and Soviet imperialism emerged from European modernity, the book is a contribution to the development of a global postcolonial discourse based on a more extensive and nuanced geohistorical comparativism. It suggests that the inclusion of East-Central Europe in European identity might help resolve postcolonialism’s difficulties in coming to terms with both postcolonial and neo-colonial dimensions of contemporary Europe. Analyzing post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of transformative political, economic and cultural experiences such as changes in perception of time and space (landscapes, cityscapes), migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, objectifying gaze, cultural self-colonization, and language as a form of power, the book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism. Together the studies map the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art, the latter highlighted through accompanying illustrations.
