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Background Reading:
Popkin, Modern France, pp. 285-292.
Required Readings:
Simone de Beauvoir and Gisèle Halimi, Djamila Boupacha (trans. 1962), pp. 9-32, 90-100, available on e-reserves.
Jean-Paul Sartre, preface to Franz Fanon,Wretched of the Earth (1961), on-line.
[If you have time, you should also read Pierre Vidal-Naquet, "Auschwitz and the Third World" from his Assasins of Memory (1962), on-line.]
Recommended Viewing:
Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (1965)--a work of fiction, this film nonetheless gives an extremely vivid sense of the fighting for Algiers. The trailer is available on-line, as are other short clips and the script.
See also the discussion of Rachid Bouchareb's Les Indigènes [literally, The Natives, though the English version is called Days of Glory] (2006); trailer on-line.
Further Reading:
Paul Aussaresses, The Battle of the Casbah. Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism trans. Robert L. Miller (2002)--in this book and some famous interviews (including one on 60 Minutes), General Aussaresses defended the French use of torture in Algeria.
David Carroll, Albert Camus, the Algerian: Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice (2007).
Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for
Independence and the Origins of the Post Cold-War Era (2002).
Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism (1965).
Mouloud Feraoun, Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War (2000).
James LeSueur, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics
during the decolonization of Algeria (2001).
Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (1956).
Leïla Sebbar (ed.), An Algerian Childhood: A Collection of Autobiographical Narratives (2001).
Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization (2006).
Benjamin Stora, Algeria, 1830-2000 : A Short History (2001).
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