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clearly an intentionally political work. 11 Yet (Joffrin aside) his harshest critics usually reject the possibility of Submission as an actual political statement. If Houellebecq lends aid and comfort to the Front national it is out of carelessness, they

people not be justified in thinking that they had been duped by a fake decolonization? The suspicion I heard relies on an understanding of decolonization that means more than simply the acquisition of national sovereignty, but also entails social justice

national point of view … the petitioner lives in an irregular situation and would present no guarantee of stability.” The “irregular situation” in question referred to Wainer’s cohabitation with a mistress, rather than a wife. Though she was French, the

. French doctors in Cameroon saw international health organizations as not only competing for influence over medical institutions, but also as posing an existential threat to their professional identity. During the colonial period, French doctors

, literary, and historical publications, along with an extraordinary cache of letters addressed to Barine and held in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of France, this article adds another interpretation of Barine's historical significance. 4

versus paperless refugees, his camp memoir described—better than any novel or contemporary journalistic account—the mental stress created by the loss of national identity papers. Identity papers mattered as much as food or water in the game of

demonstrated that tourism served a purpose for the governments that promoted it, building national identity by introducing populations to “their” country and encouraging visitors to view or partake in local culture deemed to be representative of the nation as a

virtue of his years of work starting already in 1906 on the famous “Malet-Isaac” history textbooks, he cannot but have been aware that he had been contributing in his own way to the continued forging of France’s national identity. Perhaps most important

littérature nationale (et de manière générale la littérature légitime) est un enjeu central d’un champ littéraire. Cet espace de concurrence qu’est le champ ne se fonde d’ailleurs pas nécessairement sur des bases nationales, même si le développement d