Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism

Alec G. Hargreaves is Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 North America and the CaribbeanChapter 3 Slavery and Commemoration: Remembering the French Abolitionary Decree 150 Years LaterChapter 4 A Singular RevolutionChapter 5 The Past is passé: Time and Memory in Maryse Condé's La Belle CréoleChapter 6 France and the French in Collective Memory of the AcadiansPart 7 Africa and AsiaChapter 8 Film and Colonial Memory: La Croisière Noire 1924-2004Chapter 9 Trespass of Memory: The French-Indochina War as World War IIChapter 10 Memory and Continuity: The Resistance, the Algerian War, and the Jeanson NetworkChapter 11 Intimate Acts and Unspeakable Relations: Remembering Torture and the War for Algerian IndependenceChapter 12 Revisiting Ghosts: Louisette Ighilahriz and the Remembering of TortureChapter 13 The Poetics of Memory in Assia Djebar'sLa Femme sans sépulture: A Study in ParadoxesChapter 14 A Literature without a Name: René-Nicolas Ehni's Algérie romanPart 15 Postcolonial MigrationChapter 16 Decolonizing the Past: Re-visions of History and Memory and the Evolution of a (Post)Colonial HeritageChapter 17 The Algerian War RevisitedChapter 18 France and Algeria: Performing the "Impossible Memory" of a Shared Past

Every essay is accessible, and the collection as a whole serves as a fine introduction to French postcolonial studies. Summing Up: Recommended.