Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

Contents

Contents introduction: The Creation of a Colonial Culture in France, from the Colonial era to the “Memory Wars” \ Pascal Blanchard, sandrine lemaire, nicolas Bancel, and dominic Thomas 1 Part 1. The Creation of a Colonial Culture Foreword: French Colonization: an inaudible History \ Marc Ferro 51 1 antislavery, abolitionism, and abolition in France from the end of the eighteenth Century to the 1840s \ Marcel dorigny 56 2 Milestones in Colonial Culture under the second empire (1851–1870) \ sandrine lemaire, Pascal Blanchard, and nicolas Bancel 75 3 exhibitions, expositions, Media Coverage, and the Colonies (1870–1914) \ sandrine lemaire and Pascal Blanchard 90 4 science, scientists, and the Colonies (1870–1914) \ Gilles Boëtsch 98 5 literature, song, and the Colonies (1900–1920) \ alain ruscio 106 6 entertainment, Theater, and the Colonies (1870–1914) \ sylvie Chalaye 116 7 school, Pedagogy, and the Colonies (1870–1914) \ Gilles Manceron 124 8 dying: The Call of the empire (1913–1918) \ Éric deroo 132 Part 2. Conquering Public Opinion Foreword: History’s Mark (1931–1961) \ didier daeninckx 143 9 dreaming: The Fatal attraction of Colonial Cinema (1920–1950) \ olivier Barlet and Pascal Blanchard 150 vi | Contents 10 spreading the Word: The agence Générale des Colonies (1920–1931) \ sandrine lemaire 162 11 to Civilize: The invention of the native (1918–1940) \ nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard 171 12 selling the Colonial economic Myth (1900–1940) \ Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch 180 13 The athletic exception: Black Champions and Colonial Culture (1900–1939) \ timothée Jobert, stanislas Frenkiel, and nicolas Bancel 189 14 The Colonial Bath: Colonial Culture in everyday life (1918–1931) \ nicolas Bancel 200 15 The Colonial exposition (1931) \ steven ungar 209 16 national unity: The right and left “Meet” around the Colonial exposition (1931) \ Pascal Blanchard 217 Part 3. The Apogee of Imperialism Foreword: images of an empire’s demise \ Benjamin stora 235 17 Colonizing, educating, Guiding: a republican duty \ Françoise vergès 250 18 Promotion: Creating the Colonial (1930–1940) \ sandrine lemaire 257 19 influence: Cultural and ideological agendas (1920–1940) \ david Murphy, elizabeth ezra, and Charles Forsdick 268 20 education: Becoming “Homo imperialis” (1910–1940) \ nicolas Bancel and daniel denis 276 21 Manipulation: Conquering taste (1931–1939) \ sandrine lemaire 285 22 Control: Paris, a Colonial Capital (1931–1939) \ Pascal Blanchard and Éric deroo 296 23 imperial revolution: vichy’s Colonial Myth (1940–1944) \ Pascal Blanchard and ruth Ginio 307 Contents | vii 24 The Colonial economy: Between Propaganda Myths and economic reality (1940–1955) \ sandrine lemaire, Catherine Hodeir, and Pascal Blanchard 320 25 French unity: The dream of a united France (1946–1960) \ Jacques Frémeaux 333 Part 4. Toward the Postcolony Foreword: Moussa the african’s Blues \ abdourahman a. Waberi 343 26 decolonizing France: The “indochinese syndrome” (1946–1954) \ daniel Hémery 347 27 immigration and an emerging african elite in the Metropole (1946–1961) \ Philippe dewitte 364 28 north africans settle in the Metropole (1946–1961) \ Pascal Blanchard, Éric deroo, driss el yazami, Pierre Fournié, and Gilles Manceron 372 29 Crime: Colonial violence in the Metropole (1954–1961) \ Jean-luc einaudi 380 30 Modernism, Colonialism, and Cultural Hybridity \ Herman lebovics 388 31 The Meanders of Colonial Memory \ nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard 399 32 The impossible revision of France’s History (1968–2006) \ suzanne Citron 411 33 national History and Colonial History: Parallel Histories (1961–2006) \ sandrine lemaire 420 34 The illusion of decolonization (1956–2006) \ Jean-Pierre dozon 432 35 The difficult art of exhibiting the Colonies \ robert aldrich 438 Part 5. The Time of Inheritance Foreword: The age of Contempt, or the legitimization of France’s Civilizing Mission \ Bruno etienne 455 viii | Contents 36 trouble in the republic: disturbing Memories, Forgotten territories \ Françoise vergès 462 37 Competition between victims \ esther Benbassa 473 38 The army and the Construction of immigration as a Threat (1961–2006) \ Mathieu rigouste 482 39 Postcolonial Culture in the army and the Memory of overseas Combatants (1961–2006) \ Christian Benoît, antoine Champeaux, and Éric deroo 491 40 republican integration: reflections on a Postcolonial issue (1961–2006) \ vincent Geisser 497 41 Colonial influences and tropes in the Field of literature \ Jean-Marc Moura 510 42 From Colonial History to the Banlieues (1961–2006) \ dominique vidal 518 43 Can We speak of a Postcolonial racism? (1961–2006) \ saïd Bouamama and Pierre tevanian 527 44 From Colonial stereotypes to the Postcolonial Gaze: The need for an evolution of the imaginary \ dominique Wolton 536...