The memory of colonialism in Britain and France : the sins of silence / Itay Lotem.
Lotem, Itay, author.
2021
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Title The memory of colonialism in Britain and France : the sins of silence / Itay Lotem.
Author Lotem, Itay, author.
ISBN 9783030637194 (electronic bk.)
3030637190 (electronic bk.)
3030637182
9783030637187
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63719-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 428 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-63719-4 doi
Call Number DA16
Dewey Decimal Classification 941
Summary This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France. By comparing these two former colonial powers, the author tells two distinct stories about coming to terms with the legacies of colonialism, the role of silence and the breaking thereof. Examining memory through the stories of people who incited public conversation on colonialism: activists; politicians; journalists; and professional historians, this book argues that these actors mobilised the colonial past to make sense of national identity, race and belonging in the present. In focusing on memory as an ongoing, politicised public debate, the book examines the afterlife of colonial history as an element of political and social discourse that depends on actors goals and priorities. A thought-provoking and powerful read that explores the divisive legacies of colonialism through oral history, this book will appeal to those researching imperialism, collective memory and cultural identity.
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Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Introduction
SECTION I: FRANCE
Chapter 1: Tracing Postcolonial Silence in France
Chapter 2: A Silence that Never Was? Appropriating the Algerian War of Independence
Chapter 3: Devoir de memoire on the Road to 2005:The Republic and the Emergence of Memory Activism
Chapter 4: Memory as Republican Critique: Race and Anti-Racism after 2005
Chapter 5: Memory as a Marker of Political Affiliation
SECTION II: BRITAIN
Chapter 6: Silence I: Why Look Back in Anger? De-Prioritising Empire
Chapter 7: Silence II: Convivial Multiculturalisms Tyranny of the Present
Chapter 8: Breaking the Chains? Slavery in Britains Public Space
Chapter 9: New Contestations of Race and Empire
Chapter 10: The Tale of the Imperial Balance Sheet
Conclusion.

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