Introduction.- SECTION I: FRANCE.- Chapter 1: Tracing Postcolonial Silence in France.- Chapter 2: A Silence that Never Was? Appropriating the Algerian War of Independence.- Chapter 3: Devoir de mémoire on the Road to 2005:The Republic and the Emergence of Memory Activism.- Chapter 4: Memory as Republican Critique: Race and Anti-Racism after 2005.- Chapter 5: Memory as a Marker of Political Affiliation.- SECTION II: BRITAIN.- Chapter 6: Silence I: Why Look Back in Anger? De-Prioritising Empire.- Chapter 7: Silence II: Convivial Multiculturalism’s Tyranny of the Present.- Chapter 8: Breaking the Chains? Slavery in Britain’s Public Space.- Chapter 9: New Contestations of Race and Empire.- Chapter 10: The Tale of the Imperial Balance Sheet.- Conclusion.
Itay Lotem is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Westminster, UK. He has published in academic journals like Modern and Contemporary France, French Politics, Culture and Society and French History in addition to appearances in the media.
“Itay Lotem’s rich and conceptually informed study … in which
colonialism and slavery have been remembered publicly in France and
Great Britain is an important contribution to a better
understanding of the general patterns and particularities of the
surge in colonial memories across Europe. … By the sheer wealth of
information and insights he provides, Lotem proves himself to be an
invaluable guide … that will continue to demand the attention of
societies and states in Europe and beyond.” (Jan C. Jansen, German
Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. 45 (2), November,
2023)
“The book is engagingly written, and is notable in its ambition,
scope, and breadth of research undertaken. … The Memory of
Colonialism makes several important and timely interventions in the
study of historical remembrance and postcolonial identity. … His
book will surely become a cornerstone of the growing scholarship on
colonial memory, and deserves to be widely read.” (M. Kathryn
Edwards, Social History, April 7, 2022)
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