Margaret A. Majumdar is Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth and former Honorary Secretary of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France. Her books include Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary (Arnold 2003), Transition and Development in Algeria: Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges, co-edited with Mohammed Saad (Intellect 2005), Althusser and the End of Leninism? (Pluto 1995).

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• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. French Discourses of EmpireChapter 2. The European LegacyChapter 3. Race and ResistanceChapter 4. The Subversion of Colonial Ideology: Jean-Paul SartreChapter 5. The Nation in the National Liberation StruggleChapter 6. National Consciousness: History and CultureChapter 7. The Battleground of Language and the Changing Discourse of FrancophonieChapter 8. The Loss of Empire: French PerspectivesChapter 9. The Postcolonial State: Problems of DevelopmentChapter 10. The Other WithinChapter 11. Postcoloniality: the French Dimension?BibliographyIndex

Margaret A. Majumdar is Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth and former Honorary Secretary of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France. Her books include Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary (Arnold 2003), Transition and Development in Algeria: Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges, co-edited with Mohammed Saad (Intellect 2005), Althusser and the End of Leninism? (Pluto 1995).

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• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. French Discourses of EmpireChapter 2. The European LegacyChapter 3. Race and ResistanceChapter 4. The Subversion of Colonial Ideology: Jean-Paul SartreChapter 5. The Nation in the National Liberation StruggleChapter 6. National Consciousness: History and CultureChapter 7. The Battleground of Language and the Changing Discourse of FrancophonieChapter 8. The Loss of Empire: French PerspectivesChapter 9. The Postcolonial State: Problems of DevelopmentChapter 10. The Other WithinChapter 11. Postcoloniality: the French Dimension?BibliographyIndex

Margaret A. Majumdar is Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth and former Honorary Secretary of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France. Her books include Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary (Arnold 2003), Transition and Development in Algeria: Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges, co-edited with Mohammed Saad (Intellect 2005), Althusser and the End of Leninism? (Pluto 1995).

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• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. French Discourses of EmpireChapter 2. The European LegacyChapter 3. Race and ResistanceChapter 4. The Subversion of Colonial Ideology: Jean-Paul SartreChapter 5. The Nation in the National Liberation StruggleChapter 6. National Consciousness: History and CultureChapter 7. The Battleground of Language and the Changing Discourse of FrancophonieChapter 8. The Loss of Empire: French PerspectivesChapter 9. The Postcolonial State: Problems of DevelopmentChapter 10. The Other WithinChapter 11. Postcoloniality: the French Dimension?BibliographyIndex