Colonial myths : history and narrative

Assimilation - a colonist strategem in writing mythopoetics and politics - colonial Algeria in myths and counter-myths at the margin of the colonial text doubleness and dissimulation - the political and the ruses of irony the colonial gaze and the ghosts of colonialism the plagues of colonialism colonial racism and the fear of miscegenation the signifier of the outsider war, history and melancholia.