...Laetitia Nanquette Writers of Iranian origin who compose in French have published a fair number of novels in France since the beginning of the 1990s. This article analyzes the genre specificity of novels by Franco-Iranian authors and the challenges that the inevitable influence of the French...

... impacted Tunisian society and French colonial administration by uncovering the social strategies of the descendants of mamluks who until the 1840s came from Europe and were converted to Islam in order to serve the Tunisian authorities. These descendants chose different paths: from administrative careers...

...AGBENYEGA ADEDZE Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 In the Pursuit of Knowledge and Power: French Scienctific Research in West Africa, 1938-65 AGBENYEGA ADEDZE As agents of scientific colonization, the governors of modality, the survey modality...

...: the continuing for if you’re not going up you’re headed down. The neocolonialism of the French Overseas Departments, other danger with becoming famous is that one might the uninterrupted (though certainly variable) four centu- accomplish one’s project for overcoming lack without ries of political domination...

...) zar rnhCrbenLiterature Caribbean French in Subjectivity and History Memory: Voicing...

...Gregory Mann Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is, as its author Frederick Cooper tells us, a book about politics. It is equally a book about process. Both the politics and the process prove remarkably fluid, and restoring that fluidity to what has...

...Jakob Krais Abstract During the 1920s and 1930s, French Algeria and Italian Libya witnessed spectacular motor-sports events: desert rallies as well as car races on closed circuits. Speed sports events, in this context, served three main purposes: they integrated or reconquered the colonial...

... of nomadic tribes in French mandate Syria, this essay shows that creative appropriation of the automobile actually helped nomadic groups to strengthen their position and to defend their economic and political interests. Automobiles allowed tribal chiefs to experience enhanced mobility, facilitating a faster...

...Meredith Terretta Abstract This article analyzes the way that political actors, advocate lawyers, and European administrators leveraged the designations political prisoner, political refugee, and prohibited immigrant to claim rights for inhabitants of the UN trust territories of French Cameroon...

...Veerle Van Gijsegem Duke University Press 2006 Criminal Law of French Origin and Criminal Behavior of African Occult Origin: The Modernity of Witchcraft Trials in the West...

...Gregory Mann; Baz Lecocq Duke University Press 2007 Between Empire, Umma, and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946 – 1958 Gregory Mann and Baz Lecocq rance was not very “Republican” in its empire. Indeed, this observation...

...Laetitia Nanquette This article analyzes a trend in the prose texts of French writers of Iranian origin, based on close readings of Chahdortt Djavann, Comment peut-on être français? ( How Can One Be French? 2006), and Ladane Azernour, Les larmes de l'exil: L'Iran confisqué ( The Tears of Exile...

...Moshe Gershovich Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Collaboration and “Pacification”: French Conquest, Moroccan Combatants, and the Transformation of the Middle Atlas MOSHE GERSHOVICH In his seminal essay, “Non European foundations · What policies...

...Richard Drayton Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Nation and Empire: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is a masterwork on the high politics of the end of the French empire in Africa. His elucidation of the attempts by some African political leaders to find a path out of colonial...

...-century French attitudes toward Africa and blackness were by no means univocally negative, although they also relied on racial dichotomization. The French avant-garde, and even the general public, celebrated blackness in the fields of art, music, and dance, while anthropologists were engaged in the quest...

...Jeremy Dell Abstract Sound control policies already had a long history in the French-controlled settlements of the Senegalese coast by the time the prefect of Dakar issued a decree in 1953 prohibiting the use of loudspeakers on public roads and in the open-air courtyards of private residences...

... and effectively incorporated the Mzab into French Algeria and ended its special status as a French protectorate. Mzabi self-minoritization, Ghazal argues, was a process of performative differentiation based on a sectarian identity. It was initiated by the colonized and negotiated with the colonizer, emerging...

...Judith Surkis Abstract In contemporary France, the problem of “immigrant youth”—French citizens, born to migrant parents, often from former French colonies—symbolizes the question of minority and national belonging. The development and disciplining of immigrants have, for several decades, formed...