Abstract

LEDOUX, Sébastien. Neutralization of the Colonial Past in the Pathologization of Memories: The Case of the Algerian War. Diánoia [online]. 2024, vol.69, n.93, pp.183-203.  Epub Nov 01, 2024. ISSN 0185-2450.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704913e.2024.93.2092.

Memories of the colonial past of the Algerian War have undergone various developments in France since Algeria’s independence in 1962. Different groups structured specific relationships to this past, while the nation-state pursued a categorical policy devoid of historical narrative during the first decades, before opening up an official narrative as part of a general mutation of its narrative framework as well as its temporal plotting. This paper thus proposes a diachronic approach to these memories that pays attention to the experiences of time that they imbue and modify. Between colonialist finalism and the process of pathologization, these memories of the Algerian war illustrate the interplay of temporalities that refer to our presentist society.

Keywords : colonial; decolonization; presentism; memory; narrative.

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