Proximate Spaces of Violence: Multidirectional Memory in Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory and Outside the Law

Alex Hastie

Proximate Spaces of Violence: Multidirectional Memory in Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory and Outside the Law

Alex Hastie

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Rachid Bouchareb’s historical epics Indigènes (Days of Glory, 2006) and Hors-la-loi (Outside the Law, 2010) emerge at a crucial time in France, in which key questions about the place of France’s North African population have been asked. These films (re)imaginatively centre the histories of France’s colonial relationship with North Africa, particularly Algeria. Drawing upon Michael Rothberg’s theory of ‘multidirectional memory’, and postcolonial notions of ‘haunting’, this chapter examines Bouchareb’s films for the ways in which they produce a postcolonial memory that both feeds into and disrupts dominant geographical and historical imaginaries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Memory and Postcolonial Studies
Subtitle of host publication	Synergies and New Directions
Editors	Dirk Gottsche
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Peter Lang
Pages	255-274
Number of pages	19
Volume	Cultural Memories volume 9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78874-478-2
Publication status	Published - May 2019

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Publisher	Peter Lang

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Proximate Spaces of Violence: Multidirectional Memory in Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory and Outside the Law. / Hastie, Alex.
Memory and Postcolonial Studies: Synergies and New Directions. ed. / Dirk Gottsche. Vol. Cultural Memories volume 9 Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. p. 255-274 (Cultural Memories).

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