Colonial myths : history and narrative /

Colonial myths : history and narrative /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Haddour, Azzedine.
Imprint:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, c2000.
Description:	197 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Postcolonialism. Decolonization -- Algeria. Decolonization. Postcolonialism. Algeria -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century. France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration -- History -- 20th century. Algeria.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4389546

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ISBN:	0719051622 0719059925 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Assimilation: a colonist stratagem in writing
2. Mythopoetics and politics: colonial Algeria in myths and counter-myths
3. At the margin of the colonial text
4. Doubleness and dissimulation: the political ruses of irony
5. The colonial gaze and the ghosts of colonialism
6. The 'plagues' of colonialism
7. Colonial racism and the fear of miscegenation
8. The signifier of the outside
9. War, history and melancholia
Index