Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe [electronic resource] : Maltese settlers in Algeria and France / Andrea L. Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Series: New anthropologies of EuropePublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.Description: xi, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 944/.90049279065 22
LOC classification:
  • DT283.6.F7 S65 2006eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-257) and index.

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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