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Algeria and France, 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, Nostalgia (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)

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The relationship between Algeria and France that formed all over the 132 years of colonial rule didn’t end in 1962 when Algeria gained its independence. This long period of occupation left an indelible mark at the social fabric of both societies, one that continues to influence their cultures, identities, and politics. Wide-ranging in scope yet complementary in center of attention, the essays deftly convey the extent to which the French colonial experience in Algeria resonates on both sides of the Mediterranean. Young and established scholars make clear the linguistic, cultural, and social mechanisms of violence, remembrance, forgetting, fantasy, nostalgia, prejudice, mythmaking, and fractured identity.

Addressing the nature of Franco-Algerian relations through such topics as migration, displacement, settler colonialism, racism, and sexuality, these essays provide the most important contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and North African history. With renewed public debate surrounding the two countries’ shared past and their interwoven communities lately, this volume will probably be indispensable for someone with an interest within the relations between Algeria and France and the literature on memory and nostalgia.

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