Genocide in Libya Shar, a Hidden Colonial History
Auteur : Ahmida Ali Abdullatif
Winner of the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies 2022
This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929?1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors. This book links the Libyan genocide through cross-cultural and comparative readings to the colonial roots of the Holocaust and genocide studies.
Between 1929 and 1934, thousands of Libyans lost their lives, directly murdered and victim to Italian deportations and internments. They were forcibly removed from their homes, marched across vast tracks of deserts and mountains, and confined behind barbed wire in 16 concentration camps. It is a story that Libyans have recorded in their Arabic oral history and narratives while remaining hidden and unexplored in a systematic fashion, and never in the manner that has allowed us to comprehend and begin to understand the extent of their existence.
Based on the survivors? testimonies, which took over ten years of fieldwork and research to document, this new and original history of the genocide is a key resource for readers interested in genocide and Holocaust studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and African and Middle Eastern studies.
Introduction: Thinking About Forgotten Libyan Genocide 1. Where are the Survivors: The Politics of Missing Archives and Fieldwork 2. Eurocentrism, Silence and Memory of Genocide 3. We Died Because of Shar, Evil My Son: Survivors’ Stories of Death and Trauma in the Camps 4. After the Genocide: Hidden, and State Histories 5. Postscript: Rethinking Postcolonial State Formation, Crisis and Collapse in Libya Conclusion: Toward a Paradigm Shift
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida is a professor and founding chair of the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of New England, USA. His speciality is political theory, comparative politics, and historical sociology. His scholarship focuses on power, agency, and anti-colonial resistance in North Africa, especially modern Libya.
Date de parution : 08-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 08-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Genocide in Libya :
Mots-clés :
Eastern Libya; Oral History; genocide; Italian Colonial; shar; Young Man; libyan; Italian Fascist; survivor; Southern Libya; collapse; Tarabulus Al Gharb; Libyan genocide; Tripolitanian Republic; systematic fashion; Libyan Historian; Italian concentration camps; Italian Atrocities; Colonial Genocide; Libyan People; Anti-colonial Resistance; Sanusi Monarchy; Italian Army; Libyan State; Libyan Youth; Home Town; Tribal Alliances; Al Jabal Al Akhdar; Libyan Exiles; Libyan Case; Libyan Society; Colonial Soldiers; General National Congress