Karima Lazali - Colonial Trauma

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2 Series Title Series Title Critical South The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, Seven Essays on Populism Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness” Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution Karima Lazali, Colonial Trauma María Pia López, Not One Less Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax utxiwa Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register

3 Title Page Colonial Trauma A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria Karima Lazali Translated by Matthew B. Smith polity

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5 Dedication

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7 Foreword – Mariana Wikinski References Notes

8 Introduction: The Difficulty of Acknowledging Colonial Trauma The history of French colonization in Algeria: a blank space in memory and politics A much-needed interdisciplinary approach Note

9 1 Psychoanalysis and Algerian Paradoxes Disarray of the private and public spheres God’s reinforcement of failing institutions The power of religion and the religion of power The literary text and the invisible staging of power The power of the “language, religion, and politics” (LRP) bloc as revealed by clinical psychoanalysis The duplicity of subjects confronting censorship from the LRP Abandoned citizenship and speech acts Notes

10 2 Colonial Rupture The colony: the rogue child of the Enlightenment Colonialism’s destruction of social cohesion A colonial republic divided, or the “duty to civilize [the] barbarians” 1945: a literature of refusal is born Nedjma : an esthetic of colonial destruction? Disrupting genealogical ties: the effect of “renaming” Algerians in the 1880s Subjective catastrophes and the disappearance of the father as symbolic reference Writing against anonymous filiation Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche: a broken voice Notes

11 3 Colonialism Consumed by War 1945–1954: the necessity of war The impossibility of forgetting and madness, a “remedy” for disappearance Silencing the unforgettable mutilation of bodies Toulouse, 2012: the return of murder Constructing the “nation” The writer’s pressing need: transform disappearance into absence Notes

12 4 Colonialism’s Devastating Effects on Post-Independence Algeria The mutilated body of the colonized and the hunger for reparation Colonial hogra and a frantic quest for legitimacy The “orphaning” effect of colonialism and its impact Further distortion of patronyms Divested of a name: a form of colonial murder Manufacturing erasure and denial under colonialism From colonial trauma to social trauma Notes

13 5 Fratricide: The Dark Side of the Political Order The emergence of Algerian nationalist movements in the 1920s The War of Liberation and an impossible fraternity From parricide to fratricide When the murders between brothers are dismissed … Calling on the father A gap in memory sets off an endless deadly battle Notes

14 6 The Internal War of the 1990s Reconsidering the LRP bloc The tyranny and pleasure of power The shift of 1988 and the experience of political plurality An internal war of unprecedented violence The curse of fratricide The war comes home A strange reversal in naming Do freedom and terror go hand in hand? Notes

15 7 State of Terror and State Terror A clinical understanding of terror The terrified subject’s self-elimination Psychological terror is always political Reconciliation: state terror? When the state tries to make its practice of disappearance disappear Notes

16 8 Legitimacy, Fratricide, and Power Jugurtha: a fratricidal hero Unpunished crimes within the Republic The legitimacy the French conquest claimed for itself The impassioned scene of coloniality The specter of discord: el Fitna Notes

17 9 Getting Out of the Colonial Pact After Liberation, the indefatigable re-enactment of coloniality within subjectivities and the political order Trauma as shelter and alibi The brutalization of the living: the disappearance of children The “bone seekers”: from children to fathers Notes

18 Conclusion: Ending the Colonial Curse: Lessons from Fanon The “colonial pact”: erasure of memory, disappearance of bodies, dispossession of existence The mystical quality of the colonized For a future liberation Notes

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