The Algerian War in French-language comics : postcolonial memory, history, and subjectivity / Jennifer Howell.

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The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France's colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, and the appearance of the Third World and pan-Arabism. The Algerian war of national liberation therefore constitutes an inescapable reference fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:After the empire.
Main Author: Howell, Jennifer, 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Series:After the empire.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > French-speaking countries > History and criticism.
Algeria > History > Revolution, 1954-1962 > Caricatures and cartoons.
Nationalism and collective memory > France > Caricatures and cartoons.
Nationalism and collective memory > Algeria > Caricatures and cartoons.
Postcolonialism > France.
Nationalism and collective memory.
Postcolonialism.
Algeria.
France.
1954 - 1962
Caricatures and cartoons.
History.
Genre:
Caricatures and cartoons.
History.
Local Note:
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Physical Description:xxxvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Chronology of the Algerian War
  • The Algerian War and French comics
  • "De case en classe" : teaching the Algerian War
  • Historical narrative, French colonial culture, and comics
  • Packaging history for mass consumption
  • Atrocity photographs and reporting war
  • Self, other, and self-othering
  • Mapping colonial landscapes
  • French comics as postmemory
  • The postcolonial turn in teaching, remembering, and cartooning.