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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Algerian War"”.
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The French Communist Party and the Algerian war : an ideological turning point?
… a detailed study of the Party ' s line on the war, PCF publications were contrasted with the texts produced by the opposition.Three main axes were identified crystallising discussion within the Party during the Algerian war: The relationship between France and Algeria and the Party ' s attitude …
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An Opposition in Search of Itself: Modern French Cinema and the Algerian War
… the socio-historical perspective of the Franco-Algerian War. By combining close visual analysis of the Left Bank Group’s cinema, discourse analysis of contemporaneous film theoretical debates, and archival research of images from the popular press, I demonstrate how the Franco-Algerian War …
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
… depicting the aftermath of the Second World War, the Algerian War of Independence, or migration crises in France and Algeria. Specifically, this project will look at Leïla Sebbar’s novel La Seine était rouge, Zineb Sedira’s Mother Tongue, an art installation that uses video clips, Catherine …
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Mémoire et silence autour de la guerre d’Algérie
The Algerian War has been surrounded with historical amnesia, which the figure of Charles de Gaulle perpetuated by the creation of a national myth that included the concepts of a civilizing mission' and the need to revive its 'glorious past. The question of torture during that period proved …
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“L’éternel immigré”: identity and radicalism in France since 1962
… It argues that the lingering legacies of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) have contributed greatly to the current identity crisis in France, especially with regards to the North African and Muslim communities, as well as the far-right. The political and social issues stemming from …
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Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
… widespread oppression that occurred during the Algerian war of independence and later during the so-called ‘Dirty War’ in Argentina. The texts analysed in detail include novels and short stories by Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, Julio Cortázar and Luisa Valenzuela; the films I examine most closely …
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Le Temps des Copains: Youth and the Making of Modern France in the Era of Decolonization, 1958-1968
… to articulate a modern French identity after the Algerian War (1954-1962). Using a combination of advertisements, articles, and sanitized depictions of teenage pop singers, the yé-yé popular culture constructed an idealized vision of adolescence that coupled a technologically-savvy and …
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Saharan Fallout: French Explosions In Algeria And The Politics Of Nuclear Risk During African Decolonization (1960–66)
… conducting seventeen nuclear explosions in the Algerian Sahara. This dissertation pursues an international history of French nuclear ambitions and the resistance and the criticism that they faced at regional, international, and global scales. It does so by tracking radioactive debris from the …
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A multi-contextualist approach to Albert Camus's 'The New Mediterranean Culture': A case study in Intelletual-Historical Method
… at the time demonstrate his commitment to native Algerian civil rights. I show that at the biographical level, the attitudes he expresses in the lecture were influenced by both his family background and by other thinkers, especially Jean Grenier, Nietzsche and possibly Balcunin. These attitudes …
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Savage rulers: state-sponsored mass killing during civil war
Throughout history, warring parties have contravened norms or laws that prescribe the protection of noncombatant civilians, and wars have often wreaked tremendous havoc on civilian populations. In this dissertation, I investigate conditions under which state leaders embroiled in civil war …
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Représentations de la violence révolutionnaire dans la littérature et le cinéma français (1928-1986)
… during specific time-periods such as the inter-war period, the occupation of France by Nazi Germany or the Algerian War of Independence. My theoretical approach is a "sociology of literature" influenced by the theories of Lucien Goldmann and Marc Angenot. However, I also occasionally use …
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L'esthétique de la traversée: Chaïbia Tallal, Maïssa Bey et Assia Djebar
… the Moroccan painter, Chaïbia Tallal, and the Algerian novelists Assia Djebar and Maïssa Bey have creatively challenged the orientalist representation of the silenced, helpless, and oppressed Arab woman. They simultaneously take issue with the framework of her eroticized portrait, that of the …
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
… urban narrative whilst the shadow of the Algerian War renders, as in Resnais, a similar implicit reflection on (anti-)colonialism. Varda’s Nausicaa (1970) combines autobiographical narrative and a documentary on Greece’s coup d’état, enquiring into Greece’s ‘real’ political image and her …