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- The Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid
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- 2017
- Published by: Indiana University Press
Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates on what it means to identify as French. As they document the checkered legacy of French colonialism, the contributors raise questions about France and the contemporary role of Islam, the banlieues, immigration, race, history, pedagogy, and the future of the Republic. This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French citizens today and includes contributions by Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Stora, Françoise Vergès, Alec Hargreaves, Elsa Dorlin, and Alain Mabanckou, among others.
Table of Contents
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- Note on Translation
- pp. xi-xii
- Part I. Colonial Fracture / 2005
- 1.1. The Emergence of the Colonial
- 1.2. The Return of the Colonial
- pp. 113-114
- 9. The Republic, Colonization, and Beyond
- pp. 130-136
- 12. The Pitfalls of Colonial Memory
- pp. 153-164
- Part II. Postcolonial Ruptures / 2010
- 2.1. Debating the Colonial Legacy
- 17. Immigration: From Métèques to Foreigners
- pp. 209-219
- 2.2. Postcolonial and Critical Gazes
- 20. Postcolonial Studies in French Academia
- pp. 246-256
- 21. From Slavery to the Postcolonial
- pp. 257-271
- Part III. Apartheid and the War of Identities in France
- 3.1. The End of the “French Model”?
- 28. Faces of the Front National (1972–2015)
- pp. 341-350
- 29. Infiltration of Liquid Populism
- pp. 351-360
- 3.2. The Rejection of the Other, Identity Radicalization, and the Colonial Unconscious
- 30. Nanoracism and the Force of Emptiness
- pp. 363-367
- Bibliography
- pp. 429-462
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