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Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe : Maltese settlers in Algeria and France / Andrea L. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Andrea L.
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe.
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French--Algeria.
- French.
- Maltese--France--Ethnic identity.
- Maltese.
- France--Ethnic relations.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""[I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe and North Africa in a creative and innovative fashion."" -- Douglas Holmes, Binghamton UniversityMaltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly ""repatriated"" there after Algerian independence in 1962. In France today, these pieds-noirs are often associated with ""Mediterranean"" qualities, the persisting tensions
- 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 nostalgerie
- Settler ethnicity and identity politics in postcolonial France
- Place, replaced : Malta as Algeria in the pied-noir imagination.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-11189-7
- 1-4337-0846-9
- OCLC:
- 476026777
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