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Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism Ed. ALEC G. HArGrEAVEs Lanham, Md: Lexington, 2005. viii + 250 pp. IsBN 0-7391-0821-2 paper.
Part of the excellent series "After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France" edited by Valérie Orlando, Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism tackles the legacies of colonialism in contemporary French and francophone cultures. In a succinct and pointed introduction, Alec Hargreaves contextualizes the essays of the volume that focus "on the complexities of the memory work generated by French colonialism and its aftermath, and especially on the interface between political and cultural dynamics" (5). divided into three parts according to geographical criteria, this collection addresses issues from all major areas of the francophone world, from Acadia to Indochina, by scholars in a variety of fields. Algeria occupies a very...