Natalya Vince’s award-winning study of Algerian women war veterans is an important reflection on gender and memory in the history of modern Algeria. Recognizing the centrality of the Algeria War of Independence (1954–62) on modern state building, national identity formation, and historical study, Vince seeks both to situate the experiences of the war years as continuities, not ruptures, and to go beyond violent conflict in the narration of postcolonial Algeria. Toward these ends Vince offers an analysis of “vernacular memory” to explicate the terrain between individual and collective memory (9). Vince juxtaposes nationalist celebrations and commemorations of women freedom fighters, who are neither completely forgotten nor fully remembered, within the “glorified national history” sanctifying the anticolonial struggle withwomen’s variegated trajectories to counter the presumption that women’s rights have gone precipitously downhill since 1962 (3). At the heart of Vince’s study are interviews with twenty-seven women active during theWar of Independence. These are supplemented by National Liberation Front (FLN) documents, memoirs, newspaper accounts, and occasional references to cinema and fiction in a careful consideration of their relation to the state and nationalist ideals. Vince balances the experiences of the largely Francophone, urban, professional women with a handful of Tamazight-speaking rural women, allowing her to articulate how socioeconomics and education have helped shape these women’s experiences and memories. The former includes European women who fought with the FLN and later took Algerian citizenship. Acknowledging the absence of a predominantly Arabophone majority, Vince urges readers to question the notion of one single representative image of an “authentic” Algerian identity. Despite the diversity of these women’s postwar trajectories, and what appear on the surface to be conflicting interpretations, they use similar language and reference points

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我们的战斗姐妹：阿尔及利亚的民族、记忆和性别，1854-2012

Natalya Vince 对阿尔及利亚女性退伍军人的获奖研究是现代阿尔及利亚历史上对性别和记忆的重要反思。认识到阿尔及利亚独立战争（1954-62 年）在现代国家建设、民族认同形成和历史研究方面的中心地位，文斯试图将战争年代的经历视为连续性而非破裂，并超越暴力冲突在后殖民时代的阿尔及利亚的叙述中。为此，文斯对“白话记忆”进行了分析，以解释个人记忆和集体记忆之间的关系（9）。文斯将民族主义庆祝活动和女性自由战士的纪念活动并列在一起，她们既没有被完全遗忘，也没有被完全记住，在“光荣的民族历史”中，将反殖民斗争与妇女的各种轨迹神圣化，以反驳自 1962 年以来妇女权利急剧下滑的假设 (3)。文斯研究的核心是对独立战争期间活跃的 27 位女性的采访。民族解放阵线 (FLN) 的文件、回忆录、报纸报道以及偶尔提及的电影和小说作为补充，仔细考虑了它们与国家和民族主义理想的关系。文斯平衡了大部分讲法语的城市职业女性和少数说塔马兹特语的农村女性的经历，让她能够阐明社会经济和教育如何帮助塑造这些女性的经历和记忆。前者包括与 FLN 战斗并后来获得阿尔及利亚公民身份的欧洲妇女。文斯承认缺乏阿拉伯语占多数的多数，他敦促读者质疑“真实”阿尔及利亚身份的单一代表性图像的概念。尽管这些女性战后的轨迹多种多样，表面上似乎是相互矛盾的解释，但她们使用了相似的语言和参考点