SexViolHist Bib: Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Algerian War

»The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and war crimes. The conflict also became a civil war between the different communities and within the communities. The war took place mainly on the territory of Algeria, with repercussions in metropolitan France.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: African History: Algerian History; European History: French History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Real Victims: Djamila Boupacha; Types: General: Rape

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Elements from the French Armed Forces used deliberate torture during the Algerian War (1954–1962), creating an ongoing public controversy. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, a renowned French historian, estimated that there were "hundreds of thousands of instances of torture" by the French military in Algeria. (...) According to historian R. Branche, torture would begin with the systematic stripping of the victim. Beating was combined with many different techniques, among them hanging by the feet or hands, water torture, torture by electric shock, and rape.« -- More information: Wikipedia

B i b l i og r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Branche, Raphaëlle. La torture et l'armée pendant la guerre d'Algérie (1954-1962). Paris 2001.

[Info] Branche, Raphaëlle. »Des viols pendant la guerre d’Algérie.« Vingtième Siècle No. 75 (2002): 123-132.

[Info] Branche, Raphaëlle. »La sexualité des appelés en Algérie.« Des hommes et des femmes en guerre d'Algérie. Edited by Jean-Charles Jauffret. Paris 2003: 402-415.

[Info] Branche, Raphaëlle. »Sexual Violence in the Algerian War.« Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century. Edited by Dagmar Herzog. Basingstoke 2009: 247-260.

[Info] Branche, Raphaëlle. La torture et l'armée pendant la guerre d'Algérie (1954-1962). Paris 2016.

[Info] Brun, Catherine, et al., eds. Guerre d'Algérie: Le sexe outragé. Paris 2016.

[Info] Cherki, Alice, et al. »> Conséquences générationnelles des dénis de viols pendant les guerres d’Algérie.«. Guerre d'Algérie: Le sexe outragé. Edited by Catherine Brun et al. Paris 2016: 109- .

[Info] Fassin, Éric. »Fanon, du voile au viol: Culture, genre et sexualité.« Guerre d'Algérie: Le sexe outragé. Edited by Catherine Brun et al. Paris 2016: 29- .

[Info] Fort, Pierre-Louis. »Où j’ai laissé mon âme de Jérôme Ferrari: Viol et violence, entre corps et consciences.« Guerre d'Algérie: Le sexe outragé. Edited by Catherine Brun et al. Paris 2016: 183-196.

[Info] Käuper, Eva. Die Folter im Algerienkrieg – zwischen mémoire und histoire: Der Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Positionierung. Würzburg 2015.

[Info] Kleinman, Sarah. Resistance, Represenation, and War: Algerian Women, the French Army, and the Djamila Boupacha Case. Honors Thesis, University of Florida, 2012.

[Info] Kunkle, Ryan. »"We Must Shout the Truth to the Rooftops": Gisèle Halimi, Djamila Boupacha, and Sexual Politics in the Algerian War of Independence.« Iowa Historical Review 4 (2013): 5-24.

[Info] Moussaoui, Abderrahmane. »Violence, viols et symbolique sexuelle: L’Algérie d’une guerre à l’autre.« Guerre d'Algérie: Le sexe outragé. Edited by Catherine Brun et al. Paris 2016: 87-106.

[Info] Ortiz i Jornet, Eduard. The Practice of Torture by the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962): The Enforcement of Justice and Reparation. Bachelor Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019.

[Info] Rousseau, Frédéric. »Sexes en guerre et guerre des sexes. Les viols durant la guerre d’Algérie (1954-1962).« Deportate, esuli, profughe No. 10 (2009): 29-47.

[Info] Scagliola, Stef, et al. »Verkrachting tijdens de Indonesische en Algerijnse onafhankelijkheidsoorlogen: Motieven, contexten en politiek.« BMGN 135 (2020): 72–92.

[Info] Surkis, Judith. »Ethics and Violence: Simone de Beauvoir, Djamila Boupacha, and the Algerian War.« French Politics, Culture & Society 28 (2010): 38-55.

[Info] Vendetti, Maria. Le Retour de ‘La Question’: Torture, memory and narrative in contemporary French literature. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California at Berkeley, 2013.

[Info] Vendetti, Maria. »Testimonial texts of torture during the Algerian War: Paratexts and the obscene.« French Cultural Studies 29 (2018): 177-189.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Kleinman, Sarah. »Resistance, Representation, and War: Algerian Women, the French Army, and the Djamila Boupacha Case, 1954-1962.« Monsters and Myths in the Making. Gainesville 2012.

[Info] Kuby, Emma. »The ‘Sensual Pleasure’ of Violence: French Discourses on Sexual Deviancy, Terror, and Torture in the Algerian War (1954‐1962).« 37^th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. Toronto 2011.

[Info] Marks, Catherine. »The Power of Dreams: Sexual Violence in Frantz Fanon's 'Algeria Unveiled' and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.« Women Writing Rape: Literary and Theoretical Narratives of Sexual Violence. Warwick 2007.