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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Andrea L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Series:New anthropologies of Europe.
Subjects:
French > Algeria.
Maltese > France > Ethnic identity.
Français > Algérie.
Maltais > Identité ethnique > France.
HISTORY.
Ethnic relations
French
France > Ethnic relations.
Algeria
France
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A song in Malta
  • Maltese settler clubs in France
  • A hierarchy of settlers and the liminal Maltese
  • The Algerian melting pot
  • The ambivalence of assimilation
  • The French-Algerian War and its aftermath
  • Diaspora, rejection, and nostalgérie
  • Settler ethnicity and identity politics in postcolonial France
  • Place, replaced : Malta as Algeria in the pied-noir imagination.

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