Beschreibung:
James D. Le Sueur is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the editor of Mouloud Feraoun's Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War (available in a Bison Books edition) and The Decolonization Reader and The Decolonization Sourcebook. He contributed new material to Ben Abro's Assassination! July 14 and Henri Alleg's The Question, both available in Bison Books editions.
Traces the intricate relationship of intellectuals during the French-Algerian War and on the identity politics generated by decolonization.
Foreword by Pierre Bourdieu; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Intellectuals and Identity Part I: Decolonization and Visions of Reconciliation One History and Franco-Muslim Reconciliation: French Colonialism in Algeria; Two Imbroglios and Intellectual Legitimacy: Anticolonialism and the Comite d'Action; Three French Educational Reform and the Problem of Reconciliation: The Service des Centres Sociaux; Four The Unbearable Solitude of Being: The Question of Albert Camus Part II: Representing Rupture Five Shifting Views of Reconciliation: A Liberal Retreat from Empire?; Six Visions of Reconciliation, Visions of Rupture: Violence, Propaganda, and Representations of Difference; Seven The Politics of Othering; Eight The Legacy of Violence: Reflections on the Revolution in Two Nations; Conclusion: The Politics of Identity