The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity -- Kader Attia, Paperback Anne Kelly Track: 12 - Surrey with

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Romantic Times 12/01/2008 pg

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The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity -- Kader Attia, Paperback Anne Kelly Track: 12 - Surrey withTracing the relation between fascism and settler colonialism. In the aftermath of World War II, the recently liberated nations in Europe were swift to resume colonial oppression abroad. On May 8, 1945, the day victory was celebrated by the Allies, the French police massacred hundreds of townspeople in S tif, leading the French editor Claude Bourdet to ask, "Are we the Gestapo in Algeria?" In Europe, what is called "fascism," poet Aim C saire argued in