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"Imperial Identities" is a groundbreaking book that addresses
identity formation in colonial Algeria of two predominant
ethnicities and analyzes French attitudes in the context of
nineteenth-century ideologies. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the
process through which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions
were developed and used as instruments of social control in
colonial society. She examines the circumstances that gave rise to
and the influences that shaped the colonial images of "good" Kabyle
and "bad" Arab (usually referred to as the Kabyle myth) in
Algeria. In this new edition of Imperial Identities, Lorcin addresses the
related scholarship that has appeared since the book's original
publication, looks at postindependence issues relevant to the
Arab/Berber question, and discusses the developments in Algeria and
France connected to Arab/Berber politics, including the 1980 Berber
Spring and the 1992-2002 civil war. The new edition also contains a
full and updated bibliography.
While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region’s seas and controlled its ports. By contrast, for the peoples of its southern shores, the Mediterranean was polymorphous, shifting with the economic and seafaring exigencies of the moment. Nonetheless, by the nineteenth century the idea of a monolithic Mediterranean had either been absorbed by or imposed on the populations of the region. In French Mediterraneans editors Patricia M. E. Lorcin and Todd Shepard offer a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of space and movement through new approaches to think about the maps, migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and transnational context. By reconceptualizing the Mediterranean, this volume illuminates the diversity of connections between places and polities that rarely fit models of nation-state allegiances or preordained geographies.
The dissolution of the French Empire and the ensuing rush of immigration have led to the formation of diasporas and immigrant cultures that have transformed French society and the immigrants themselves. "Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World" examines the impact of this postcolonial immigration on identity in France and in the Francophone world, which has encompassed parts of Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Immigrants bear cultural traditions within themselves, transform "host" communities, and are, in turn, transformed. These migrations necessarily complicate ideals of national literature, culture, and history, forcing a reexamination and a rearticulation of these ideals. Exploring a variety of texts informed by these transnational conceptions of identity and space, the contributors to this volume reveal the vitality of Francophone studies within a broad range of disciplines, periods, and settings. They remind us that the idea and reality of "Francophonie" is not a late twentieth-century phenomenon but something that grows out of long-term interactions between colonizer and colonized and between peoples of different nationalities, ethnicities, and religions. Truly interdisciplinary, this collection engages conceptions of identity with respect to their physical, geographic, ethnic, and imagined realities.
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