Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe :: Maltese settlers in Algeria and France /

Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but, as French citizens, were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of colonialism on Europe...

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Main Author: Smith, Andrea L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Series:New anthropologies of Europe.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but, as French citizens, were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of colonialism on Europe. She explores nostalgia and collective memory; the settlers' limited 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, eth.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.
ISBN:9780253111890
0253111897
9781433708466
1433708469

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