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Author Smith, Andrea L

Title Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe : Maltese settlers in Algeria and France / Andrea L. Smith
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series New anthropologies of Europe
New anthropologies of Europe
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
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Subject French -- Algeria.
Maltese -- France -- Ethnic identity
HISTORY.
Ethnic relations
French
SUBJECT France -- Ethnic relations
Subject Algeria
France
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253111890
0253111897
9781433708466
1433708469