
Decolonizing Emotions in French Algeria
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During the Algerian War (1954-1962), emotions thus became a pivotal part of the independence struggle. Accordingly, Decolonizing Emotions tracks affective politics during the revolution, focusing on members of the Front de liberation nationale (FLN), Combattants de la liberation (CDL), and Jeune Resistance. Delving into the manifestos, poetry, and personal diaries of anti-colonial activists, the book reveals a rich world of transgressive sentiments, emotional exile, and affective border-crossings.
The stories that surface show how Algerians used biopower to combat an affective regime that refused native populations the right to be angry. The book further chronicles how Europeans complicated ideas of humanitarian pity and confronted the French production of political apathy. It is a history that holds modern relevance, speaking to contemporary debates over race relations and national pride, the pathologizing of Muslim emotions, and the contested process of how myths die (demythologization).
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Decolonizing Emotions in French Algeria offers an exciting and important new approach to the history of the decolonization of French Algeria through its focus on emotion. It uses a wide range of source material to tell the history of both how emotions drove activism and action, as well as how groups weaponized emotions in the battle over public opinion. * Sara Rahnama, Professor, Morgan State University, USA * This book is the first to explicitly centre a history of emotions of the Algerian Revolution. Drawing on a rich range of Arabic and French sources, it demonstrates how myths were repurposed, moral imaginaries created and underscores the importance of studying the human side of activist commitment. * Natalya Vince, Professor, University of Oxford, UK *More details
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Acknowledgements
Introduction:
On Self-Immolation and Emotional Decolonization
Chapter 1
The Encircled Corpse
Death, Intimacy, & the Making of the Algerian Revolution
Chapter 2
The Lowly Toad, the Foolish French, and the Moral Maquisard: Algerian Morality Tales
Chapter 3
Blood on Fire: Revolutionary Dignity and the Emotional War
for Algerian Decolonization
Chapter 4
Profile of a "Pain-in-the-Ass Militant": Personality Traits, Emotions, and the French Border-Crossing
Chapter 5
The Corpse Dressed in Lace: Constructing a Community of Revolt
Chapter 6
On Trial with Antigone and Christ Crucified: French Suitcase-Carriers against the Colonial Myth
Conclusion: The Activist Immolated
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