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"In Natives against Nativism, Harrison explores the intersection of anticolonial solidarity and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present. Offering the first relational study of antiracism in France, she observes how claims to indigeneity have been deployed in multiple directions, both in the ongoing struggle for migrant rights and racial justice, and in white nativist claims in France today"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Palestine as Metaphor -- Part I. Decolonizing the Maghreb -- 1. Souffles-Anfas: Palestine and the Decolonization of Culture -- 2. Transcolonial Hospitality: Kateb Yacine's Experiments in Popular Theater -- 3. The Transcolonial Exotic: Allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Algerian Trilogy -- Part II. Jews, Arabs, and the Principle of Separation -- 4. Portrait of an Arab Jew: Albert Memmi and the Politics of Indigeneity -- 5. Abrahamic Tongues: Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida -- 6. Edmond Amran El Maleh and the Cause of the Other -- Epilogue: Palestine and the Syrian Intifada -- Notes -- Index -- Cultural Memory in the Present

Abstract
The borders between North and South quickly erode when we study the history of anti-colonial revolutions. This is perhaps especially true of France, where the Palestinian revolution has been a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights for the past half century. This article investigates the reactivation of anti-colonialism in the postcolonial era, tracing the decades-long "postcolonial anti-colonial" movements born in migrant circles in France, from the 1970s to the present. What happens to the notion of anti-colonial revolution when it is brought back to the metropole? How does it change when it is brought to bear on the migrant question? First posed by the Palestine committees forged by migrant workers, foreign students, and Maoist militants in the wake of the September 1970 massacre of Palestinians in Jordan, these questions have shaped discourses around migrant rights in France for the past fifty years. In conclusion, this article revisits the archive of the migrant theater collective Al Assifa as it is remediated in Bouchra Khalili's 2017 film The Tempest Society, and speculates on the current place of migration in world historical discourses of decolonization.

Sounds Senses takes sound as a point of departure for engaging the francopphone postcolonial condition. Offering a synthetic overview of sound studies, the book dismantles the oculocentrism and retinal paradigms of francophone postcolonial studies. It introduces two primary theoretical thrusts - the unheard and the unintegrated - to the project of analyzing, extending, and rejuvenating francophone postcolonial studies

"'Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988–2015' offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realities, the chapters in this volume serve to open up any discourse that would tie 'Algeria' to a fixed meaning or construct it in ways that neglect the weft and warp of everyday cultural production and political action. The configuration of these essays invites us to read contemporary cultural production in Algeria not as determined indices of a specific place and time (1988–2015) but as interrogations and explorations of that period and of the relationship between nation and culture. The intention of this volume is to offer historical moments, multiple contexts, hybrid forms, voices and experiences of the everyday that will prompt nuance in how we move between frames of enquiry. These chapters — written by specialists in Algerian history, politics, music, sport, youth cultures, literature, cultural associations and art — offer the granularity of microhistories, fieldwork interviews and studies of the marginal in order to break up a synthetic overview and offer keener insights into the ways in which the complexity of Algerian nation-building are culturally negotiated, public spaces are reclaimed, and Algeria reimagined through practices that draw upon the country's past and its transnational present." (Publisher's description)