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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | New anthropologies of Europe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253111890 0253111897 9781433708466 1433708469 |