Memory and Testimony in Writing the History of the Algerian Revolution 1954-1962 The Liberation Struggle in History of the P

Testimony, as a source for oral history, expresses a moment when historical reality identifies with its immediate disclosure: historical testimony thus provides a link with history itself as well as with the witness. In the context of the Algerian revolution, the author notes how narrating the revolution requires powers of perception and an awareness of self and subjectThe loss of contact with the other also deprived Algerian fighters of the possibility of narrating the course of the armed struggle on the basis of the background of the French-Algerian presence. However, the opposition that affirms the self as an active subject and affirms the other as an opponent can be challenged and overcome. Those who had the ability to communicate with the French were those at the forefront of the general, existential, diplomatic and political fronts at the time of the revolution and they were also those able to narrate the history of the Algerian revolution as a second chapter created by the revolution itself.

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Testimony, as a source for oral history, expresses a moment when historical reality identifies with its immediate disclosure: historical testimony thus provides a link with history itself as well as with the witness. In the context of the Algerian revolution, the author notes how narrating the revolution requires powers of perception and an awareness of self and subjectThe loss of contact with the other also deprived Algerian fighters of the possibility of narrating the course of the armed struggle on the basis of the background of the French-Algerian presence. However, the opposition that affirms the self as an active subject and affirms the other as an opponent can be challenged and overcome. Those who had the ability to communicate with the French were those at the forefront of the general, existential, diplomatic and political fronts at the time of the revolution and they were also those able to narrate the history of the Algerian revolution as a second chapter created by the revolution itself.

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