Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria

454 Pages·2006·23.723 MB·English

by  James D. Le Sueur

Uncivil War
Intellectuals and Identity Politics
during the Decolonization of Algeria
James D. Le Sueur
Foreword by Pierre Bourdieu
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UNCIVIL WAR

UNCIVIL
WAR
Intellectuals and Identity Politics
during the
Decolonization of Algeria
SECOND EDITION
James D. Le Sueur
Foreword by Pierre Bourdieu
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
LINCOLN AND LONDON
A portion of chapter 8 previously
appeared as “Ghost Walking
in Algiers? Why Aleck Baylee Toumi
resurrected Sartre and de Beauvoir,”
in Modern and Contemporary France
10.4 (2002): 507-17.
www.tandf.co.uk/journals.
Reprinted with permission.
© 2001 by the
University of Pennsylvania Press.
Chapter 8 © 2005
by the Board of Regents of the
University of Nebraska
Manufactured in the United States of America
©
Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Le Sueur, James D.
Uncivil war: intellectuals
and identity politics during the
decolonization of Algeria /
James D. Le Sueur;
Foreword by Pierre Bourdieu.—2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8028-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8032-8028-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Intellectuals—Algeria—
Political activity.
2. Group identity—Political
aspects—Algeria.
3. Decolonization—Algeria.
I. Title.
DT295-L345 2005
965'.0461—dc22
2005023761
Set in Quadraat by Bob Reitz.
Designed by Ray Boeche.
In loving memory of
Vivian Le Sueur
and for
Keith Le Sueur
And dedicated to
the memory of
William B. Cohen

CONTENTS
Foreword by Pierre Bourdieu
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Intellectuals and Identity
Part One: Decolonization and Visions of Reconciliation
I. History and Franco-Muslim Reconciliation:
French Colonialism in Algeria 17
. Imbroglios and Intellectual Legitimacy
Anticolonialism and the Comité d’Action 32
. French Educational Reform and
the Problem of Reconciliation:
The Service des Centres Sociaux 62
. The Unbearable Solitude of Being:
The Question ofA lbert Camus 98
Part Two: Representing Rupture
Shifting Views of Reconciliation:
5.
A Liberal Retreat from Empire? 147
. Visions of Reconciliation, Visions of Rupture:
Violence, Propaganda, and Representations of Difference 185
. The Politics of Othering 239
8. The Legacy of Violence:
Reflections on the Revolution in Two Nations 286
Conclusion: The Politics of Identity 323
Notes 329
Bibliography 373
Index 417
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