Table of Contents

Introduction: The Postcolonial Nation Fiona Barclay Part One: Narrative Gaps 1. Amnesia about Anglophone Africa: France's Rhodesian mind-set, its manifestations and its legacies, 1947 - 58. Joanna Warson 2. From 'ecrivains coloniaux' to ecrivains de 'langue francaise': strata of un/acknowledged memories. Gabrielle Parker Part Two: The Algerian War, Fifty Years On 3. Conflicting memories: modernisation, colonialism and the Algerian war appeles in Cinq colonnes a la une. Iain Mossman 4. Derrida's virtual space of spectrality: cinematic haunting and the law in Mon Colonel (Herbiet, 2006). Fiona Barclay 5. 'Le devoir de memoire': the poetics and politics of cultural memory in Assia Djebar's Le Blanc de l'Algerie. Jennifer Mullen 6. (Un)packing the suitcases: postcolonial memory and iconography. William Kidd Part Three: The Transnational Family 7. Interrogating the transnational family: memory, identity and cultural bilingualism in Sous la clarte de la lune (Traore, 2004). Zelie Asava 8. Continuity and discontinuity in the family: looking beyond the post-colonial in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (Claudel, 2008). Fiona Handyside Part Four: Contemporary Commemorations 9. Anti-racism, republicanism and the Sarkozy years: SOS Racisme and the Mouvement des Indigenes de la Republique. Thomas Martin 10. Playing out the postcolonial: football and commemoration. Cathal Kilcline 11. Crime and penitence in slavery commemoration: from political controversy to the politics of performance. Nicola Frith

About the Author

Fiona Barclay is a lecturer in French and postcolonial studies at the University of Stirling. She is the author of Writing Postcolonial France: Haunting, Literature and the Maghreb (Lexington, 2011).

Reviews

"In a variety of spheres--political, legal, cultural, and historiographic--debates regarding memories of empire have, over the past decade, acquired a genuine urgency in France and in the wider French-speaking world. This volume provides a useful set of essays that explore the legacies of colonialism in a wide range of locations and in a number of very difference arenas. The contributors include established scholars and some of the most important early-career researchers active in this field. The collection as whole is a significant contribution to new work in Francophone postcolonial studies."--Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool

"The eleven articles in France's Colonial Legacies contain numerous productive dialogues with scholarship from related disciplines, reflecting the turns towards trauma and memory studies. Michael Rothberg, Cathy Caruth, Dominick LaCapra, and Judith Butler are just a few of the critics cited who give this volume its varied and cross-disciplinary feel. . . . An important contribution to the field of memory studies, investigating the reverberations that France's colonial legacy continue to have in the nation's present."--George MacLeod, University of Pennsylvania "Contemporary French Civilization"