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Our fighting sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 - Softcover

Vince, Natalya

 
9781526106575: Our fighting sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954-2012
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526106574 ISBN 13: 9781526106575
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2016

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Winner of the 2016 Women's History Network Book Prize Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century's most violent wars of decolonisation. This is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from urban bombers to members of the rural guerrilla support network, it explores how female veterans viewed the post-independence state and its multiple discourses on 'the Algerian woman' in the fifty years following 1962. It also examines how these former combatants' memories of the anti-colonial conflict intertwine with, contradict or coexist alongside the state-sponsored narrative of the war constructed after independence. Making an original contribution to debates about gender, nationalism and memory, this book will appeal to students and scholars of history and politics.

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Natalya Vince is Senior Lecturer in North African and French Studies at the University of Portsmouth

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Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our fighting sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence.

Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from members of the Algiers urban bomb network to women who supported rural guerrillas, this book explores how female veterans viewed the post-independence state and its multiple discourses on ‘the Algerian woman’ in the fifty years following 1962, from the euphoria of national liberation to the civil violence of the 1990s. It also examines the ways in which these former combatants’ memories of the anti-colonial conflict intertwine with, contradict or coexist alongside the state-sponsored narrative of the war constructed after independence.

Part of an emerging field of works seeking to write the post-independence history of Algeria, this book aims to go beyond reading Algeria through the lens of post-colonial trauma or through a series of politicised dichotomies pitching oppressed citizens against an oppressive state, official commemoration against vernacular memory or narratives of post-independence decline against post-colonial success stories. Instead, this original book is about the contradictions and compromises of state- and nation-building after decolonisation. Its wider conclusions contribute to debates about gender, nationalism and memory, and it will appeal to students and scholars of history, politics, area studies, gender studies and memory studies.

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Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our fighting sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from members of the Algiers urban bomb network to women who supported rural guerrillas, this book explores how female veterans viewed the post-independence state and its multiple discourses on the Algerian woman in the fifty years following 1962, from the euphoria of national liberation to the civil violence of the 1990s. It also examines the ways in which these former combatants memories of the anti-colonial conflict intertwine with, contradict or coexist alongside the state-sponsored narrative of the war constructed after independence. Part of an emerging field of works seeking to write the post-independence history of Algeria, this book aims to go beyond reading Algeria through the lens of post-colonial trauma or through a series of politicised dichotomies pitching oppressed citizens against an oppressive state, official commemoration against vernacular memory or narratives of post-independence decline against post-colonial success stories. Instead, this original book is about the contradictions and compromises of state- and nation-building after decolonisation. Its wider conclusions contribute to debates about gender, nationalism and memory, and it will appeal to students and scholars of history, politics, area studies, gender studies and memory studies.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526106574
ISBN 13 
9781526106575
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
298
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