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Batailles pour la Mémoire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Mike Mason
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Montreal

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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References

1 For a military version of the war, (Colonel) Goyet, Pierre Le, La guerre d'Algérie (Paris, 1989).Google ScholarHarki mémoires seem conspicuously absent; one Algerian writer refers to their story as a ‘memory hole’.

2 Dictionnaire biographique de militants nationalistes algériens, 1926–1955 (Paris, 1985)Google Scholar; Messali Hadj (1898–1974), pionnier du nationalisme algérien (Paris, 1986)Google Scholar; Les sources du nationalisme algérien: parcours idéologiques: origines des acteurs (Paris, 1989)Google Scholar; plus the two works under review here.

3 Einaudi, Jean-Luc, La ferme Améziane: enquête sur un centre de torture pendant la guerre d'Algérie (Paris, 1991).Google Scholar

4 For Algerian and French fiction written after the war, see Trente ans après: nouvelles de la guerre d'Algérie (Paris, 1992)Google Scholar, especially Christiane Achour, ‘La guerre de libération nationale dans les fictions algériennes’, and Michel Breton and Jean-Louis Gerard, ‘La guerre d'Algérie au miroir de la fiction française’. The former lists around seventy works and the latter 122.

5 Consider these titles: Meurtres pour mémoire, L'echarde (‘ Chronique d'une mémoire d'Algérie’),‘ Les Socialistes entre principes, pouvoir et mémoire’, and ‘ Les troubles de la mémoire française’, both in La guerre d'Algérie et les François; ‘La mémoire rapatriée' in the third section, called ‘Mémoires’ of La France en guerre d'Algérie; ‘ 1962–1982; désirs d'oubli, bouffée de mémoire’ in La gangrène et I'oubli; or its opposite, ‘forgetting’ as in La gangrène et I'oubli.

6 Echenberg, Myron, Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857–1960 (Portsmouth NH, 1991), Ch. 10Google Scholar, ‘Epilogue: Collective Memory and the African Military’; Cumings, Bruce, War and Television, (London, 1992), 80.Google Scholar

7 Namer, Gerard, Batailles Pour La Mémoire (Paris, 1983), 6.Google Scholar

8 A notice at Nanterre: ‘L’des É juifs de France Section Nantrre Une conférence sur le théme “culpabilité et é morie:ce que les français ne veulent savoir “’ and in the case of ‘’ affaire Touview’ which exploded in paris in late November 192. Touvier had been a jailer of the Milice, the French paramilitary body which faithfully served the regime of Marshal Petain. Complicit in the murder of seven French Jews and accused of crimes against humanity, after the war Touvier was sheltered by the Catholic Church for years until he finally gave himself up. In a trial in April 1992, he was exonerated. In November 1992 the verdict of exoneration was overturned. The case filled the pages of the French press. Le Monde editorialized about the Touvier case under the heading, ‘Les Crimes Oblié’, 29–30 Nov. 1992.