Description |
1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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New anthropologies of Europe |
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New anthropologies of Europe
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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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
French -- Algeria.
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Maltese -- France -- Ethnic identity
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HISTORY.
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Ethnic relations
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French
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SUBJECT |
France -- Ethnic relations
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Subject |
Algeria
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France
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780253111890 |
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0253111897 |
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9781433708466 |
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1433708469 |
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