SFPS Monthly Mailing: September 2018
- Calls for Papers
1.1 Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society/Congrès annuel de la Société d’histoire coloniale Française
1.2 Connected Histories: Decolonization and the 20th Century (Interdisciplinary Conference)
1.3 Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Conference)
1.4 Call for Articles: North African Literatures Beyond the Francophone Maghreb (Special Issue)
- Job Opportunities
2.1 Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies (University of Sydney)
2.2 Full time Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in French (University of St Andrews)
2.3 Associate or Full Professor in French Literature, Thought and Culture (New York University)
2.4 Assistant Professor in French Studies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2.5 Tenure-line Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies (Georgetown University)
- Announcements
3.1 Call for expressions of interest: BFPS book reviews editor
- New Titles
4.1 The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa (Harvard University Press, 2018)
4.2 Le trauma colonial: Une enquête sur les effets psychiques et politiques contemporains de l’oppression coloniale en Algérie (La Découverte, 2018)
4.3 L’Algérie, traversées (Hermann, 2018)
- Calls for Papers/Contributions
1.1 Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society/Congrès annuel de la Société d’histoire coloniale Française
Université de Sherbrooke (Campus de Longueuil), South Shore of Montreal, Québec (Canada)
June 13-15 / 13-15 juin 2019
The 45th Annual Congress of the French Colonial Historical Society (FCHS) will be held at the University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus (two metro stations from the city of Montreal) from Thursday, June 13 to Saturday, June 15, 2019.
This year’s conference theme is « Order and Disorder in the French Colonial Empire », which invites participants to consider principles, institutions, and strategies that ensured the establishment and maintenance of colonial order but also contestations and resistances which sometimes led to its collapse.
The Society encourages students, scholars, and educators from all disciplines to submit proposals. Papers may be delivered in English or French. Individual paper proposals should include a 200-word summary, as well as the title of the paper, presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, and a brief C.V. (1 to 2 pages). All components of the proposal should be integrated into a single file MS-Word document.
Proposals for complete panels or round tables will contain the same information for each participant, as well as a title for their panel/round table. Please also provide contact information and a short C.V. for the moderator if one is included in the proposal. The program committee will assist in locating moderators, if necessary. Please indicate in your proposal whether audiovisual equipment is required for your proposal.
Individuals wishing to moderate a session should send a statement of interest that included research specialization, contact information, and a brief C.V. Individual and panel proposals should be submitted via email before November 1st, 2018 (deadline) to frenchcolonial2019@gmail.com.
The FCHS depends on membership dues. All conference participants (presenters and moderators) must pay both the 2019 membership fee and the conference registration fee upon acceptance as a participant in the annual meeting. Unfortunately, the FCHS does not have funds to subsidize scholars’ participation at the meeting. Graduate students, however, may apply for the Shorrock Travel Award; details are provided on the FCHS website (the application must be sent with the proposal).
Additional information about the Society’s scholarly activities, fellowships, and past conferences is available at www.frenchcolonial.org. If you have any questions about membership, please contact Spencer Segalla at treasurer@frenchcolonial.org.
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Appel à Communications
Le 45e congrès annuel de la Société d’histoire coloniale française (SHCF) se tiendra du 13 au 15 juin 2019 au Campus de Longueuil de l’Université de Sherbrooke (à deux stations de métro de la ville de Montréal). Le thème de cette année est « Ordre et désordre dans l’Empire colonial français », ce qui permettra de considérer les principes, les institutions, les stratégies qui sous-tendent l’implantation et le maintien de l’ordre colonial mais aussi les contestations et les résistances qu’il a suscités et qui ont parfois entraîné son démantèlement. Cependant, comme tous les ans, les propositions de communication sur d’autres aspects de l’histoire coloniale française seront prises en considération.
La Société encourage les enseignant.e.s, chercheur.e.s et étudiantes de toutes disciplines à soumettre des propositions de communication. Les communications peuvent s’effectuer en français ou en anglais. Les propositions individuelles doivent comprendre le titre de la communication, le nom de l’intervenant.e, son institution de rattachement, ses coordonnées (e-mail/courriel et téléphone), un résumé de 200 mots et un bref curriculum vitae (une à deux pages) dans un seul document, de préférence en MS-Word. Merci d’indiquer d’emblée si vous avez besoin d’équipements audiovisuels.
Les propositions de sessions complètes ou de tables-rondes doivent contenir ces éléments pour chacun des participantes, de même que pour le modérateur/trice (le comité scientifique du congrès peut aussi aider dans la recherche d’un modérateur/trice). Les personnes souhaitant présider une séance sont priées d’envoyer une déclaration d’intérêt, leurs coordonnées ainsi qu’un bref CV.
Les propositions pour des sessions complètes ou communications individuelles doivent être envoyées par courriel (email) à frenchcolonial2019@gmail.com avant le 1er novembre 2018.
La SHCF est une association indépendante, sans autre source de financement que les cotisations de ses adhérents. L’adhésion à l’association et les frais d’inscriptions sont obligatoires pour tous les participants (intervenant.e.s et modérateurs/trices) au moment de l’acceptation de leur proposition. Malheureusement, la SHCF n’offre pas de financement pour participer au congrès. Les doctorants peuvent cependant concourir au prix Shorrock. Les modalités sont indiquées sur le site de la FCHS (la demande doit être faite au moment de l’envoi de la proposition de communication).
Des informations complémentaires sur les activités de la Société d’histoire coloniale française, les bourses et les précédentes conférences sont disponibles à l’adresse www.frenchcolonial.org.
Pour toute question concernant l’adhésion à la Société, merci de contacter Spencer Segalla à treasurer@frenchcolonial.org.
1.2 Connected Histories: Decolonization and the 20th Century
April 26-27, 2019
Yale University (New Haven, CT)
An interdisciplinary conference organized by Yale University’s International History Workshop
Keynote Speaker: Professor Barbara Keys
Deadline for abstracts: November 1, 2018
https://connectedhistoriesyale.wordpress.com/
In the past few years, the project of writing global history has become increasingly celebrated. Many historians argue for the utility and indeed necessity of globalizing history. Others still remain skeptical of what a global optic can occlude.
This conference invites senior and emerging scholars to interrogate what the “global turn” can offer to histories of decolonization and anti-colonial thought in the twentieth century. This would involve moving beyond the direct connections between colony and metropole and to think about other connected and conceptual geographies and terrains. We understand decolonization to encompass not only the formal transference of powers, but also the larger processes by which individuals and societies confronted the legacy and violence of empire – in political memory, intellectual thought, and public history.
The planning committee therefore invites papers on the following topics:
- Intellectual genealogies of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary ideas, as well their transmission across space and time
- Decolonization and its transnational debates
- Connected visions of violence
- Public memory and the legacy of empire
- Law, Legality and Decolonization
- Nodes, networks and hubs of transnational/trans-imperial activism
- Gender and internationalism
- Transnational efforts to challenge the global “color line”
- Transnational histories of the counter-revolutionary right
- Mapping international connections: prospects and possibilities from the Digital Humanities
- Methods in global intellectual and cultural history
Deadline for Paper Abstracts: November 1, 2018
Email Abstracts to: connectedhistoriesyale2019@gmail.com
Note: we are especially interested in papers that challenge the boundaries of older geographies, inviting projects that offer new ways to connect the history of the Global South to that of Europe and North America; move between and across different imperial spaces and work through alternate transnational fields such as literature, art and the law. Projects that emphasize the lateral connections within and across Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean are also encouraged.
The conference will be based on a colloquium model. It will include a keynote address, a plenary lecture, and five thematic panels. Thematic panels will be decided upon the shared interests of the participants.
We will cover accommodation and food while at New Haven. We also have some funding support available for domestic and international travel.
1.3 Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women’s Writing
CFP deadline: 12 November 2018
Conference: 30 – 31 May 2019, Senate House, University of London
CFP online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17174
This conference is organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) in collaboration with the AHRC Open World Research Initiative project ‘Cross-Language Dynamics’. It follows on from an exploratory workshop that was held at the IMLR in March 2018 (‘A New Language – a New Life? Translingual literature by contemporary women writers’). Our aim is to bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in a range of language fields, in order to explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues.
In the current era of mass migration and transnational movement, analysis of translingualism as the mode of expression of this movement is an important area of inquiry. Where static concepts of belonging are questioned and increasingly replaced by hybrid identities and affiliations and by fluid attachments, changing with time, the power of translingual language use and its analysis can become a means to reimagine the identitarian force of language, it can bring to the fore new subjectivities and new forms of community (Kellman, 2000; Yildiz, 2012). Considered in conjunction with questions of gender and power, translingual writing can also reveal powerful ways of conceptualizing emancipatory feminine writing. Beyond concerns of identity formation, furthermore, translingual language use opens up new ways of thinking and of deconstructing established modes of expression through associative cross-language connections. In so transcending the binaries of language use it is apt to reveal new forms of literary writing.
We are calling for proposals of papers that engage with any of these issues and are particularly interested in research that addresses any of the following issues:
- The theoretical base:translingualism, multilingualism, heteroglossia, code-switching in literary writing by women
- Translingual writing and gender
- Questioning the concept of the mother tongue: cliché or mooring / relationship between language and mothering
- Identity and belongingin translingual texts (multiple / hybrid?)
- The relationship between spoken and written language
- Questions of ‘authenticity’
- Distanceas a creative element
- Emancipatory potentials of translingual writing
- Translingual writing and the concept of authorship
- Translingual writing and the literary market
- Questions of translatability.
Please send your proposals for papers of 20 mins duration (with a short abstract of your proposed contribution, 200-250 words) to Deirdre Byrnes (Deirdre.Byrnes@nuigalway.ie) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk) by Monday, 12 November 2018.
1.4 Call for Articles: North African Literatures Beyond the Francophone Maghreb
The North Africa Caucus of the African Literature Association is seeking papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the African Literature Association devoted to North Africa.
*North African Literatures Beyond the Francophone Maghreb*
The study of North African literatures has been firmly rooted in francophone frameworks since the 1960s, an approach that perpetuates colonial categories of both space and language. We seek papers for a special issue of JALA that will approach North African literature beyond the geographic and linguistic limitations of the so-called Francophone Maghreb. The work presented in this special issue will address a series of under-studied questions in the field of North African literary studies. How do other languages in the region, such as Arabic, Tamazight (Berber), and Spanish intersect with French? How do individual North African works, writers, artists, or filmmakers problematize monolithic definitions of nationalism and regional identities? How do authors in the diaspora experience their North African identities in new languages and new contexts? How do the literatures and cultural productions of the Maghreb relate to the rest of Africa, and to other spaces such as the Middle East, the Mediterranean?
In order to begin answering these questions, we seek submissions that address the diversity of North African literatures, particularly their ties to various linguistic traditions, genres, regions, and spaces.
Submission of Papers
Essays should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words; should be Word documents, using MLA format for layout and citation. Essays are to be submitted in two forms: a full version with author’s details, and a completely anonymized version.
Please send your essays electronically to zbentahar@towson.edu by February 1st, 2019, using the subject heading “JALA SI Maghreb.”
Preparing Your Paper
You can access the journal’s advice to authors on preparing a manuscript here: https://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rala20&page=instructions
All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
Articles that have been published previously, or that are currently being considered for publication elsewhere, will not be considered for this Special Issue.
- 2. Job Opportunities
2.1 Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Sydney
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School of Languages and Culture
Reference no. 1789/0918C
- Join a highly collaborative and supportive team with a strong research culture
- Develop your career alongside internationally renowned colleagues
- Full-time, continuing, Academic Level B, remuneration package: $123K to $146K p.a. which includes basic salary, leave loading and up to 17% superannuation
The Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Sydney is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at academic Level B, with expertise preferably in the field of Translation and Transcultural Studies but other areas relevant to French and Francophone Studies will be considered.
The position is full-time continuing, subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation and confirmation for new appointees.
The successful applicant will be expected to:
- maintain a research profile compatible with the Department’s research programmes through publication and research grant application
- supervise honours and postgraduate research students in French and Francophone Studies as required
- coordinate and teach language units in the French and Francophone major including at all levels from Beginner to Advanced.
- coordinate and teach culture units at all levels and adapt to departmental needs with regard to curriculum development
- contribute to the teaching of interdisciplinary units at School and Faculty level including European Studies, International and Comparative Literature, and Translation. Areas of focus should reflect the applicant’s area of expertise
- coordinate and help promote French and Francophone Studies within the university and to the community
- work flexibly and collaboratively in a team environment and assume roles in administration and planning in the Department and School
- take on roles in administration in the Department and School.
About you
The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies who has:
- a PhD in French or Francophone Studies
- native or near-native competency in French and English
- a strong record of peer-reviewed publications relative to opportunity
- demonstrated experience and commitment to innovative teaching and course development
- experience in designing and teaching French language modules at different levels with demonstrated success in promoting student retention and achieving high levels of language competency
- demonstrated ability, relative to opportunity, to develop and maintain an active research program including research grant applications
- evidence of capacity to work flexibly and collaboratively in a team environment and to assume roles in administration and planning in the Department and School.
About us
The University of Sydney is Australia’s first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7300 permanent staff, supporting over 50,000 students.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse ranges of humanities and social science studies in the Asia Pacific region and is regularly ranked in the top 20 arts faculties in the world. The School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) offers the widest range of undergraduate and postgraduate language studies in Australia and is a centre for European, Latin American, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
The Department of French and Francophone Studies within the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney is the largest French department in Australia and has been teaching French since 1853. We offer the opportunity to join a dynamic group of scholars committed to theoretical innovation and intellectual excellence in French and Francophone Studies. We are seeking to appoint a scholar who will complement and enhance the Department’s reputation in teaching and in research.
How to apply
For more information on the position and University, please view the candidate information pack available from the job’s listing on the University of Sydney careers website.
All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website. Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment – Lecturer in French & Francophone Studies to apply.
Closing date: 11:30pm, 22 October 2018 (Sydney time)
2.2 Full time Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in French, University of St Andrews
The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews is seeking to appoint a full time Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in French. You should possess an Honours degree, experience in the design and delivery of a language programme in French, and have native or near native competence in French and English. Experience in teaching French as a foreign language is essential.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- To play an active role in the development of the languageprogramme as a whole, and design and maintain teaching material both for use in the classroom and for self-access learning;
- To deliver language teaching at all levels (including all relevant preparation for classes, coursework assessments and examinations) and participate in examination and assessment at all levels;
- To undertake general administration related to teaching responsibilities, including the co-ordination of core language modules and other administration as required;
- To participate in language outreach activitiesorganised by the School;
- To carry out various administrative tasks as determined by the Head of Department or the Head of School;
- To regularly update language teaching and pedagogical skills.
The University is committed to equality for all, demonstrated through our working on diversity awards (ECU Athena SWAN/Race Charters; Carer Positive; LGBT Charter; and Stonewall). More details can be found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.
For informal enquiries, please contact the Head of Department, Elise Hugueny-Léger on esmh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Please Quote Reference: AO1429AS
Closing Date: 29 October 2018
Further Particulars: AO1429AS FPs.doc
School of Modern Languages – French
Salary: £33,199 – £39,609 per annum
Start Date: 28 January 2019, or as soon as possible thereafter
Full vacancy details: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/3667/0/202963/889/associate-lecturer-education-focused-in-french
2.3 Associate or Full Professor in French Literature, Thought and Culture (New York University)
The Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University invites applications for a position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor, beginning September 1, 2019, pending administrative and budgetary approval. Candidates from all fields of French literature, thought and culture are invited to apply but preference will be given to those with expertise in one or more of the following areas: theater, Middle Ages, eighteenth century, and 20th-21st-century literature and thought.
An established record of distinguished scholarly research as well as a record of excellence in teaching are required; preference will be given to candidates with the potential to attract students to a PhD program. This position is initially associated with the Directorship of the NYU Center for French Language and Cultures, a center of excellence supported by the French Embassy. Experience in or potential for directing a French center of excellence (or similar), including programming and fundraising, is also a necessary requirement.
Applicants should submit a letter, a CV, and the names of three referees, through http://apply.interfolio.com/55074. Since diversity is an important part of the NYU mission, both within and beyond our campus, please also provide a statement describing how diversity has figured in your past and present academic activities. How would you imagine bringing issues of diversity to bear both within NYU’s Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture, and in the Center for French Language and Cultures?
Review of applications will begin November 1, and continue until the position is filled.
The Faculty of Arts and Science at NYU is at the heart of a leading research university that spans the globe. We seek scholars of the highest caliber, who embody the diversity of the United States as well as the global society in which we live. We strongly encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, and other individuals who are under-represented in the profession, across color, creed, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, gender and sexual identity, or any other legally protected basis. NYU affirms the value of differing perspectives on the world as we strive to build the strongest possible university with the widest reach. To learn more about the FAS commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, please read (http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/administrative-resources/office/dean/diversity-initiative.html). EOE/Affirmative Action/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
2.4 Assistant Professor in French Studies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
French Studies with a focus on post-1950 and contemporary France
Department of French and Italian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Department of French and Italian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor in French Studies, with a focus on post-1950 and contemporary France.
The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO. To learn more about the University’s commitment to diversity, please visit http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu.
We welcome applicants with an interest in interdisciplinary research. The successful candidate will show evidence of an active research agenda, and demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching. The successful candidate is expected to teach French literature and culture courses effectively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, to establish and maintain an active and independent research program, and provide service to the department, the university and the profession. Native or near-native French and English required; ability to teach in French required. Teaching load is 2/2.
Ph.D. in French or related field required at the time of appointment. The anticipated starting date is August 16, 2019; the starting salary is competitive. Candidates with superior qualifications who will complete all the Ph.D. requirements within the first appointment year may be appointed at the rank of Instructor. After the Ph.D. requirement is met, the appointment will be changed to Assistant Professor.
To apply, create your candidate profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your application materials: letter of application, CV, and a writing sample of 20-30 pages. The online application will require the contact information or Interfolio ID for three professional references. Referees will be contacted electronically by the department within 2 business days after submission of the application. Only applications submitted through the University of Illinois Job Board will be considered.
To ensure full consideration, all required application materials must be received no later than November 5, 2018. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made before November 5th. For more information contact slcl-hr@illinois.edu.
The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.
2.5 Tenure-line Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies (Georgetown University)
Georgetown University, Department of French & Francophone Studies. Tenure-line Assistant Professor position for a specialist in ONE of the following areas: 1) Francophone Caribbean Studies, especially Haitian Studies; OR 2) Middle Eastern Francophone Studies. Beyond courses taught in French in the specific area of research expertise, the candidate will be expected to teach a variety of offerings in French at the lower- and mid-division levels, including language-learning and writing-intensive courses. Ph.D. in hand by August 2019 and near-native fluency in French AND English are required. The Georgetown University Department of French & Francophone Studies has a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and research at all levels. Our overarching learning goal is to give students linguistic competency, cultural literacy, writing and research skills, and critical thinking abilities within a framework that encourages creativity. Cover letter, CV, two sample syllabi, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation must be received by November 23, 2018. Cover letters, in addition to describing research, teaching, and service profiles, should show how candidates will enrich a community that seeks a diversity of perspectives and people. We will conduct first-round interviews via Zoom video conferencing.
Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse faculty and staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation), disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Applications will be accepted through Interfolio.
https://apply.interfolio.com/55302
Questions about the position should be e-mailed to Andrew Sobanet (ajs43@georgetown.edu), Interim Chair, Department of French and Francophone Studies.
- Announcements
3.1 Call for expressions of interest: BFPS book reviews editor
The Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies (BFPS) is the journal of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies and published online twice a year (spring and autumn). We are looking for a reliable and pro-active Book Reviews Editor to join the team and work closely with the editor, Sarah Arens.
Your responsibilities include:
*Liaising with and receiving review copies from academic publishers
*Finding adequate reviewers and sending out review copies
*Editing the incoming book reviews and communicating with the reviewers
*Working closely with the editor
This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in the production process of a renowned academic online journal, in editing, and in networking. You will be up to date with what is happening in the field and in touch with a wide variety of its scholars. To keep postal charges at a minimum, this position can unfortunately only be offered to someone based in the UK.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank our outgoing book reviews editor Khalid Lyamlahy for all his stellar work and wish him all the best for his new adventures post-PhD. Khalid has kindly agreed to help his successor settle into the new role.
If you have any further questions and if you are interested in this position, please get in touch with Sarah Arens and send a short CV (up to 2 pages) and a brief statement detailing your interest in getting involved in this role (up to 500 words) to sa245@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31 October 2018. We actively welcome expressions of interest from postgraduate students. Please only consider this position if it is reconcilable with your postgraduate studies and/or other work commitments.
- New Titles
4.1 The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa (Harvard University Press, 2018)
By Jessica Lynne Pearson
In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as decolonization movements gained strength.
After World War II, French officials viewed health improvements as a way to forge a more equitable union between France and its overseas territories. Through new hospitals, better medicines, and improved public health, French subjects could reimagine themselves as French citizens. The politics of health also proved vital to the United Nations, however, and conflicts arose when French officials perceived international development programs sponsored by the UN as a threat to their colonial authority. French diplomats also feared that anticolonial delegations to the United Nations would use shortcomings in health, education, and social development to expose the broader structures of colonial inequality. In the face of mounting criticism, they did what they could to keep UN agencies and international health personnel out of Africa, limiting the access Africans had to global health programs. French personnel marginalized their African colleagues as they mapped out the continent’s sanitary future and negotiated the new rights and responsibilities of French citizenship. The health disparities that resulted offered compelling evidence that the imperial system of governance should come to an end.
Pearson’s work links health and medicine to postwar debates over sovereignty, empire, and human rights in the developing world. The consequences of putting politics above public health continue to play out in constraints placed on international health organizations half a century later.
For more information, see http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980488.
4.2 Le trauma colonial: Une enquête sur les effets psychiques et politiques contemporains de l’oppression coloniale en Algérie (La Découverte, 2018)
De Karima Lazali
Psychanalyste, Karima Lazali a mené une singulière enquête sur ce que la colonisation française a fait à la société algérienne, enquête dont elle restitue les résultats dans ce livre étonnant. Car elle a constaté chez ses patient∙e∙s des troubles dont rend mal compte la théorie psychanalytique. Et que seuls les effets profonds du « trauma colonial » permettent de comprendre : plus d’un demi-siècle après l’indépendance, les subjectivités continuent à se débattre dans des blancs de mémoire et de parole, en Algérie comme en France.
Elle montre ce que ces « blancs » doivent à l’extrême violence de la colonisation : exterminations de masse dont la mémoire enfouie n’a jamais disparu, falsifications des généalogies à la fin du XIXe siècle, sentiment massif que les individus sont réduits à des corps sans nom… La « colonialité » fut une machine à produire des effacements mémoriels allant jusqu’à falsifier le sens de l’histoire. Et en cherchant à détruire l’univers symbolique de l’« indigène », elle a notamment mis à mal la fonction paternelle : « Leurs colonisateurs ont changé les Algériens en fils de personne » (Mohammed Dib). Mais cet impossible à refouler ressurgit inlassablement. Et c’est l’une des clés, explique l’auteure, de la permanence du « fratricide » dans l’espace politique algérien : les fils frappés d’illégitimité mènent entre frères une guerre terrible, comme l’illustrent le conflit tragique FLN/MNA lors de la guerre d’indépendance ou la guerre intérieure des années 1990, qui fut aussi une terreur d’État.
Une démonstration impressionnante, où l’analyse clinique est constamment étayée par les travaux d’historiens, par les études d’acteurs engagés (comme Frantz Fanon) et, surtout, par une relecture novatrice des œuvres d’écrivains algériens de langue française (Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Nabile Farès, Mouloud Mammeri…).
En savoir plus: http://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Le_trauma_colonial-9782348041235.html.
4.3 L’Algérie, traversées (Hermann, 2018)
Dir. par Ghyslain Lévy, Catherine Mazauric, Anne Roche
Le projet de L’Algérie, traversées s’est formulé autour d’une question partagée : l’heure n’est-elle pas venue en Algérie d’un véritable renouveau apporté par les œuvres de culture ? La vitalité, la diversité, l’impertinence de ces dernières en témoignent. Elles débouchent sur une nouvelle page en train de s’écrire, non seulement en Algérie mais aussi au cœur de la relation complexe entre l’Algérie et la France.
Les différentes générations d’écrivains, d’artistes, de psychanalystes, de chercheurs en littératures, en anthropologie ou en histoire réunies à l’occasion d’un colloque de Cerisy ont concouru à une rupture avec les versions convenues de l’Histoire, avec les mémoires encore enfermées dans des clivages post-traumatiques et des fixations nostalgiques.
Cet ouvrage rend compte de leurs travaux, avec l’enthousiasme et la passion des échanges entre celles et ceux qui savent combien le passé s’écrit toujours au futur, car il est riche de possibles à faire advenir.
Traverser, c’est multiplier les voies du sens et de l’interprétation, chercher des chemins de biais ; traverser, c’est traduire pour accéder à d’autres formes d’altérité. L’esprit des traversées anime ce livre, depuis le pouvoir créateur de la métaphore, afin de dire autrement l’Algérie et sa réalité présente et à venir.
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