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The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954

The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954

Gosnell, Jonathan

Hardcover

African HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1580461050
ISBN13: 9781580461054
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Oct 15 2002
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
An examination of French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule.

In recent years, a multicultural society and changing conceptions of French identity have been the source of considerable debate in scholarship, literature and the media in France. This book examines equally contested definitionsof French identity from the past, but not those forged within the borders of the French 'Hexagon, ' as French geographic space is sometimes called. It is the study of French sentiment in colonial Algeria of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, during the last quarter century of colonial rule in North Africa. It seeks to uncover elements of French identity that were generated past the Pyrenees and the Alps, beyond the bordering Atlantic Ocean, English Channel and Mediterranean Sea, outside the physical space so central to Frenchness. It asks whether far-reaching state institutions could transform indigenous and settler populations in colonial Algeria -- Europeans, Jews and Muslims -- intoFrench men and women. It examines what these individuals wrote of French sentiment in colonial Algeria. Did they articulate alternative definitions of French identity? The colonial periphery is clearly quite central to France'sevolving postcolonial sense of self.

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