Resources on France, Algeria, and Memory

Key Historical Works on the Memory of the French Algerian War

  • Brazzoduro, Andrea. “Towards a Postmodern National Narrative? The Algerian War Memorial and Contemporary French Landscapes of Memory.” Memory Studies, (July 2019). https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698019863148.
  • Cohen, William B. “The Algerian War, the French State and Official Memory.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 28, no. 2 (2002): 219-39.
  • Schalk, David L. “Of Memories and Monuments: Paris and Algeria, Fréjus and Indochina.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 28, no. 2 (2002): 241-54. Accessed February 27, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41299236. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41299235.
  • McCormack, Jo. “Social Memories In (Post)colonial France: Remembering the Franco-Algerian War.” Journal of Social History 44, no. 4 (2011). http://www.jstor.org/stable/41305427.
  • Stora, Benjamin. “The Algerian War: Memory through Cinema.” Black Camera 6, no. 1 (2014): 96-107. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.6.1.96
  • Stora, Benjamin. In The Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid, edited by Bancel Nicolas, Blanchard Pascal, and Thomas Dominic, by Pernsteiner Alexis, 53-60. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt20060bg.6.
  • Evans, Martin. The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition and the Memory of the Algerian War. Oxford: Berg, 1997. (no open access)
  • Mortimer, Mildred. Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War, 131-57. Charlottesville; London: University of Virginia Press, 2018. Accessed October 4, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9b2vv7.9.
  • Welch, Edward, and Joseph McGonagle. Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria. Liverpool University Press, 2013. Accessed October 4, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjn3q.

Primary Sources – Film

  • Battle of Algiers, 1967
  • Le Petit Soldat, 1963.
  • The Winds of Aures, 1966.
  • The Intimate Enemy, 2007.

Primary Sources – Literary / Oral History

  • Dingeman, Jim, and Saadi Yacef. “”You Cannot Continually Inflict”: An Interview with Saadi Yacef.” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 49, no. 2 (2008): 48-64. Accessed March 8, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41552526.
  • Paul Aussaresses, The The Battle of the Casbah (2002)

Primary Sources – Memorials