Contesting Indochina
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Contesting Indochina

French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War

  1. 327 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Contesting Indochina

French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War

About this book

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.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780520288614
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520963467
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contesting Indochina
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Institutional Acronyms
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Map of France
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 • French Indochina from Conquest to Commemoration
  13. 2 • Remembrance and Rehabilitation: The ANAI and the Anticommunist Narrative
  14. 3 • From Activism to Remembrance: The Anticolonial Narrative
  15. 4 • Morts pour la France? Official Commemoration of the Indochina War
  16. 5 • “The Forgotten of Vietnam-sur-Lot”: Repatriate Camps as Sites of Colonial Memory
  17. 6 • “La sale affaire”: Collaboration, Resistance, and the Georges Boudarel Affair
  18. 7 • Missing in Action: The Indochina War and French Film
  19. Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index

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