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Making Peace with Your Enemy is a breakthrough book. Laetitia Bucaille focuses on how former combatants experienced the cessation of hostilities and the ways in which they represent their past. She builds incisively on the narratives-and silences-of torturers and tortured, hunters and hunted, and the intertwined official and personal remembering and forgetting on all sides in France, Algeria, and South Africa. Fresh and compelling, this book is a must-read." * Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College *
"This important comparative study reveals new sightlines to students of all societies where histories of empire and ongoing questions of racism and racialized difference still matter. Ethan Rundell's skillful translation captures Laetitia Bucaille's incisive interweaving of, on the one hand, compelling oral testimony from veterans of two bitter, bloody, as well as 'untraditional' wars and, on the other, a deep engagement with historical and sociological scholarship. The results are at once accessible and enlightening." * Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
PART I. THE AFTERMATH OF CONFLICT: (RE)FORGING THE POLITICAL ORDER
Chapter 1. South Africa: Sparing the Losers
Chapter 2. Algeria: The Victory over Colonialism
Chapter 3. France and the Algerian War: Forgetting or Endless Confrontation?
PART II. EX-COMBATANTS AND THE NATION
Chapter 4. South African Ex-Combatants: The Constraints of Reconciliation and the Law of the Market
Chapter 5. The Ex-Combatants of the FLN: An Eternally Privileged "Revolutionary Family"
Chapter 6. The Ex-Combatants of the OAS: From Exile to Overintegration
PART III. WAR NARRATIVES AND IMAGINARIES OF VIOLENCE
Chapter 7. Collective Discourse
Chapter 8. Perpetrating Violence
Chapter 9. The Intimate Ordeal of Torture
PART IV. THE DEMANDS OF JUSTICE AND RECOGNITION
Chapter 10. Offering Forgiveness/Demanding Apology
Chapter 11. Extricating Oneself from Domination
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
