Voyages En Postcolonies: Viêt Nam, Algérie, Maroc [French]

By Benjamin Stora

TRAVELS IN FORMER COLONIES Faithful to a hybrid approach in which personal experience and observations enrich historical analyses, Benjamin Stora re-explores visits he made to Vietnam, Algeria and Morocco between 1995 and 2002. Three long journeys in countries that had established their independence from France having each had their own different experience of the French colonial system. He describes the silence in Hanoi in the evening, like a distant echo of blackouts, the traces of war over the landscape and the elliptical shadows left by the past. He talks of Algeria in 1998 as it emerged from the horrors of civil war, those who were traumatised, those who were forgotten, and the new generation dusting themselves down. He depicts Morocco at the beginning of Mohammed VI's reign, a country saturated with history, one which moves very slowly and where the young, for want of any future, turn to other countries.
Moving from comparative analysis to political diagnoses, from meetings with a few key figures to the study of images and films, in Benjamin Stora's hands history is at once intellectual, sensitive and visual. It is a living history that draws on a variety of sources and sheds light on what is happening in France today. Indeed, a fourth journey brings the historian back to France where he establishes with regret that the question of former colonies is largely ignored. Neither the colonial past nor history of minorities are truly integrated into the narrative of France as a republican nation. As for Franco-Algerian heritage, even 50 years after Algerian independence it remains conflicted.

The historian Benjamin Stora is a professor at the Universit Paris-XIII and a prolific author. This book continues a series of three published by Stock: La Derni re G n ration d'octobre, Les Trois exils: Juifs d'Alg rie and Les Guerres sans fin: un historien, La France et l'Alg rie. He recently published Le 89 arabe with Edwy Plenel (2011) and La Guerre d'Alg rie expliqu e tous (Seuil, 2012).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234063108
• ISBN13: 9782234063105
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.5"