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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Algerian War of Independence"”.
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
This dissertation proposes ways out of traumatic silence in contemporary French and Francophone North African fiction. While silence has been the focus of trauma-centered texts in recent decades, I bring in the theoretical frameworks of affect theory, cultural translation, and new media as possible …
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“L’éternel immigré”: identity and radicalism in France since 1962
… carried out by Mohammed Merah, a former friend of his placed more blame on French society for Merah’s radicalization than on any external force. This thesis attempts to address that claim by examining the identity crisis in France and its relationship to both Islamist and far-right radicalism. …
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Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
The object of this thesis is to study the attempts made by writers and filmmakers in two very different socio-cultural contexts to depict and elucidate the experience of political violence, particularly torture, in the periods 1954-1962 and 1976-1983. I seek to apply the hypotheses of …
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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)
… I study the constants and the variables of the representation of: mostly left-wing) militants in 20th century French literature and film. I demonstrate that they are young idealists seeking personal rejuvenation through political violence. Moreover, I show how those works are a reflection …