The Colonization of Names : Symbolic Violence and France's Occupation of Algeria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brower, Benjamin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This groundbreaking history of personal names in nineteenth-century Algeria sheds new light on the symbolic violence of renaming and the relationship between language and colonialism.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction

1. What Is in a Name?

2. “Tell Me Your Name”: Precolonial Naming Practices in Northwestern Africa

3. “Wherever the Flag Flies”: The État Civil in Algeria: Conquest and Sovereignty, 1780s–1830s

4. “Am I That Name?”: Algerians Make Their Names Known, 1827–1840

5. In Others’ Names: Making the Algerian Name French, 1850s–1870s

6. A Colonial État Civil

Conclusion: Remember Their Names

Notes

Bibliography

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ISBN:

0-231-56109-1

OCLC:

1530377144