" I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and
anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe
and North Africa in a creative and innovative fashion." Douglas
Holmes, Binghamton University
Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France,
but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after
Algerian independence in 1962. In France today, these pieds-noirs
are often associated with "Mediterranean" qualities, the persisting
tensions surrounding the French-Algerian War, and far-right,
anti-immigrant politics. Through their social clubs, they have
forged an identity in which Malta, not Algeria, is the unifying
ancestral homeland. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to
argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of
colonialism on Europe itself. She explores nostalgia and collective
memory; the settlers liminal position in the colony as subalterns
and colonists; and selective forgetting, in which Malta replaces
Algeria, the "true" homeland, which is now inaccessible, fraught
with guilt and contradiction. The study provides insight into race,
ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context
for understanding political trends in contemporary France."
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