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The Writer as Memory Activist

Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.

July 2, 2025
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A close-up of a woman's face from the movie Le Retour

5 lesser-known examples of late-colonial French cinema

by Mani King Sharpe In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a spate of ‘late-colonial’ French films were made that thematised the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), as it was occurring. Some of these films, for example, Muriel (Resnais, 1963),…

Edinburgh University Press
February 13, 2023

The Writer as Memory Activist

5 lesser-known examples of late-colonial French cinema

The Writer as Memory Activist

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