Some thoughts by way of a preface / Henri Alleg
Contributors
Introduction / Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Part 1. Identity reconsidered. Migrations, legal pluralism, and identities: Algerian "expatriates" in colonial Tunisia / Julia Clancy-Smith
"I went pale with pleasure": the body, sexuality, and national identity among French travelers to Algiers in the nineteenth century / Victoria Thompson
Shaping the colonial body: sport and society in Algeria, 1870-1962 / Philip Dine
"Unknown and unloved": the politics of French ignorance in Algeria, 1860-1930 /Seth Graebner
Assimilation, cultural identity, and permissible deviance in francophone Algerian writing of the interwar years / Peter Dunwoodie
The politics of solidarity: radical French and Algerian journalists and the 1954 Orléansville earthquake / Yaël Simpson Fletcher
Part 2. Memory or forgetting. "They swore upon the tombs never to make peace with us": Algerian Jews and French colonialism, 1845-1848 / Joshua S. Schreier
Entering history: the memory of police violence in Paris, October 1961 / Joshua Cole
Memory in history, nation building, and identity: teaching about the Algerian war in France / Jo McCormack
Pieds-noirs, bêtes noires: anti-"European of Algeria" racism and the close of the French empire / Todd Shepard
The Harkis: history and memory / William B. Cohen
Language and politics: a new revisionism / Habiba Deming
Part 3. Nostalgia. Tattoos or earrings: two models of historical writing in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers / Mireille Rosello
Generating migrant memories / Alec G. Hargreaves
Derrida's nostalgeria / Lynne Huffer
Confronting the past: the memory work of second-generation Algerians in France / Richard l. Derderian
The return of the repressed: war, trauma, memory in Algeria and beyond / David Prochaska.
Algeria & France, 1800-2000 : identity, memory, nostalgia. ISBN 9780815630746. Published by Syracuse University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.