Contesting Indochina : French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War /

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"How does a nation come to terms with losing a war--especially an overseas war the purpose of which is fervently contested? In the ensuing years, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, M. Kathryn, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
French colonies.
Decolonization.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Decolonisation > Indochine.
Guerre d'Indochine, 1946-1954.
Vietnam Conflict
Decolonization > Indochina.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
Indochina.
Asia.
France > Colonies > Asia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • French Indochina from conquest to commemoration
  • Remembrance and rehabilitation : the ANAI and the anticommunist narrative
  • From activism to remembrance : the anticolonial narrative
  • Morts pour la France? : official commemoration of the Indochina War
  • "The forgotten of Vietnam-sur-Lot" : repatriate camps as sites of colonial memory
  • "La sale affaire" : collaboration, resistance, and the Georges Boudarel affair
  • Missing in action : the Indochina War and French film.

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