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Selective Empathy
Workers, Colonial Subjects, and the Affective Politics of French Romantic Socialism
Naomi J. Andrews
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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- 1–25
From Casablanca to Houston
A Family Story
Julie Fette
’s grandfather, but he brushed it off. I asked him why he had decided to pursue a doctorate as a retiree. “Je ne suis pas le genre à ne rien faire. Ce n’est pas ma nature,” he encapsulated. He already had two licences and a maîtrise , so he signed up for a
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- 32–60
Rethinking France’s “Memory Wars”
Harki Collective Memories, 2003–2010
Laura Jeanne Sims
and quell resistance. On the whole, the Harki memoirs as a genre are more focused on conveying personal experiences of decolonization than on exploring the origins of French colonialism in Algeria. Yet in Fatima Besnaci-Lancou’s memoir, Fille de harki
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- 83–104
Aaron Freundschuh, Jonah D. Levy, Patricia Lorcin, Alexis Spire, Steven Zdatny, Caroline Ford, Minayo Nasiali, George Ross, William Poulin-Deltour, and Kathryn Kleppinger
must also promote “a literary genre that is political in content, yet palatable and nonsubversive by virtue of its legitimation by a national institution and its conformity to a favorable horizon of expectations” (99). The other risk, as Sabo rightly
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 129–162
The Algerian Café-Hotel
Hub of the Nationalist Underground, Paris 1926–1962
Neil MacMaster
owner, Mme P., told the police that, “non habituée à ce genre de commerce, je fus en butte, dès le début, à des difficultés d’exploitation avec la clientèle FMA qui refusait de payer le loyer,” and sold the business to an FLN militant. 21 My estimate
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 57–77
Outrageous Flirtation, Repressed Flirtation, and the Gallic Singularity
Alexis de Tocqueville's Comparative Views on Women and Marriage in France and the United States
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen
differences in audience and genre between the private letter and the public book, Tocqueville repeated the themes and contents of his initial correspondence home from the United States in his two eventual volumes of Democracy in America often enough that the
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
- Pages:
- 67–90