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Contesting Indochina
French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War
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English
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2016
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How does a nation come to terms with losing a war—especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the violent process of decolonization and a fraught reckoning with a colonial past. Contesting Indochina is the first in-depth study of the competing and intertwined narratives of the Indochina War. It analyzes the layers of French remembrance, focusing on state-sponsored commemoration, veterans’ associations, special-interest groups, intellectuals, films, and heated public disputes. These narratives constitute the ideological battleground for contesting the legacies of colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War, and France’s changing global status.
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Edwards M. Kathryn :
M. Kathryn Edwards is assistant professor of modern French history at Tulane University.
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Contents
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Institutional Acronyms
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Acknowledgments
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Map of France
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Introduction
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1. French Indochina from Conquest to Commemoration
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2. Remembrance and Rehabilitation: The ANAI and the Anticommunist Narrative
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3. From Activism to Remembrance: The Anticolonial Narrative
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4. Morts pour la France? Official Commemoration of the Indochina War
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5. “Th e Forgotten of Vietnam-sur-Lot”: Repatriate Camps as Sites of Colonial Memory
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6. “La sale affaire”: Collaboration, Resistance, and the Georges Boudarel Affair
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7. Missing in Action: Th e Indochina War and French Film
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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9780520963467
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Keywords for this book
postcolonial indochina; french indochina; dien bien phu; decolonization of indochina; indochina war; french colonial efforts in indochina; state sponsored commemoration of colonization; french colonizers of indochina; legacies of colonialism in french indochina; world politics; french repatriate camps; georges boudarel; military history; history of french colonization; algerian war; anticolonial narrative; decolonization; indochina; colonialism
