Rabah Aissaoui is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Immigration and National identity: North African political Movements in Colonial and Postcolonial France (2009).Claire Eldridge is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962-2012 (2016).

By bringing together new and dynamic pieces of research, Algeria Revisited offers a new perspective on Algeria’s ongoing and active engagement with its postcolonial identity and reinforces the enduring importance of the Algerian experience in a global context.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsMap of AlgeriaIntroduction: Revisiting Algeria (Rabah Aissaoui, University of Leicester, UK and Claire Eldridge, University of Leeds, UK)Part 1: Re-imagining Colonial Conflicts and Relationships1. Criminalising Dissent: Policing Banditry in the Constantinois, 1914-18 (Samuel Kalman, St Francis Xavier University, Canada)2. The Young Algerians and the Question of the Muslim Draft, 1900-14 (Michelle Mann, Brandeis University, USA)3. 'Between Two Worlds': Emir Khaled and the Young Algerians at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century in Algeria (Rabah Aissaoui, University of Leicester, UK) 4. Weapons of Mass Representation: Algerians in the French Parliament, 1958-62 (Arthur Asseraf, University of Oxford, UK)Part 2: Identity Construction and Contestation5. Individual and Collective Identity in Algerian Francophone Literature: Jean Sénac's 'Poetry on All Fronts' (Blandine Valfort, Université de Lyon II, France)6. Algerian Female Identity Re-constitution and Colonial Language: A Postcolonial Malaise in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la Fantasia (Rachida Yassine, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco)7. 'Encounters' of Frustration and Hope in the Writing of Maïssa Bey (Samira Farhoud, St Thomas University, Canada and Carey Watt, St Thomas University, Canada)8. On the Shifting Significance of 'Algerian Cinema' as a Category of Analysis (Patricia Caillé, Université de Strasbourg, France)9. The Algerian Woman in Conflict in The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) (Sophie Bélot, University of Sheffield, UK)Part 3: Remembering Algeria10. The Entangled Politics of Postcolonial Commemoration (Jennifer E. Sessions, University of Iowa, USA)11. Passing the Torch: Memory Transmission and Activism within the Pied-Noir Community Fifty Years after Algerian Independence (Claire Eldridge, University of Leeds, UK) Conclusion: Culture as War by Other Means: Community, Conflict and Cultural Revolution, 1967-81 (James McDougall, University of Oxford, UK)Index

Rabah Aissaoui is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Immigration and National identity: North African political Movements in Colonial and Postcolonial France (2009).Claire Eldridge is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962-2012 (2016).

By bringing together new and dynamic pieces of research, Algeria Revisited offers a new perspective on Algeria’s ongoing and active engagement with its postcolonial identity and reinforces the enduring importance of the Algerian experience in a global context.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsMap of AlgeriaIntroduction: Revisiting Algeria (Rabah Aissaoui, University of Leicester, UK and Claire Eldridge, University of Leeds, UK)Part 1: Re-imagining Colonial Conflicts and Relationships1. Criminalising Dissent: Policing Banditry in the Constantinois, 1914-18 (Samuel Kalman, St Francis Xavier University, Canada)2. The Young Algerians and the Question of the Muslim Draft, 1900-14 (Michelle Mann, Brandeis University, USA)3. 'Between Two Worlds': Emir Khaled and the Young Algerians at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century in Algeria (Rabah Aissaoui, University of Leicester, UK) 4. Weapons of Mass Representation: Algerians in the French Parliament, 1958-62 (Arthur Asseraf, University of Oxford, UK)Part 2: Identity Construction and Contestation5. Individual and Collective Identity in Algerian Francophone Literature: Jean Sénac's 'Poetry on All Fronts' (Blandine Valfort, Université de Lyon II, France)6. Algerian Female Identity Re-constitution and Colonial Language: A Postcolonial Malaise in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la Fantasia (Rachida Yassine, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco)7. 'Encounters' of Frustration and Hope in the Writing of Maïssa Bey (Samira Farhoud, St Thomas University, Canada and Carey Watt, St Thomas University, Canada)8. On the Shifting Significance of 'Algerian Cinema' as a Category of Analysis (Patricia Caillé, Université de Strasbourg, France)9. The Algerian Woman in Conflict in The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) (Sophie Bélot, University of Sheffield, UK)Part 3: Remembering Algeria10. The Entangled Politics of Postcolonial Commemoration (Jennifer E. Sessions, University of Iowa, USA)11. Passing the Torch: Memory Transmission and Activism within the Pied-Noir Community Fifty Years after Algerian Independence (Claire Eldridge, University of Leeds, UK) Conclusion: Culture as War by Other Means: Community, Conflict and Cultural Revolution, 1967-81 (James McDougall, University of Oxford, UK)Index