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1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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New anthropologies of Europe
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New anthropologies of Europe.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index. |
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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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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but, as French citizens, were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of colonialism on Europe. She explores nostalgia and collective memory; the settlers' limited position in the colony as subalterns and colonists; and selective forgetting, in which Malta replaces Algeria, the "true" homeland, which is now inaccessible, fraught with guilt and contradiction. The study provides insight into race, eth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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French -- Algeria.
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French. |
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Algeria. |
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France -- Ethnic relations.
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France. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Maltese -- France -- Ethnic identity.
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Maltese. |
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Ethnicity. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Smith, Andrea L. Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006 0253347629 9780253347626 (DLC) 2005036037 (OCoLC)63229287 |
| ISBN |
9780253111890 (electronic book) |
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0253111897 (electronic book) |
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9781433708466 (electronic book) |
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1433708469 (electronic book) |
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0253347629 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253347626 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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025321856X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253218568 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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