Preface to the stone face

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LE VISAGE DE PIERRE

Among the many recent works see Michel Levine, Les Ratonnades d'octobre: un meurtre collectif (Paris: Ramsay, 1985); Jean‐Luc Einaudi, La Bataille de Paris: 17 Octobre 1961 (Paris: Seuil, 1992); Anne Tristan, Le Silence du fleuve (Paris: Au Nom de la mémoire, 1992); Jean‐Paul Brunet, Police contre FLN: le drame d'octobre 1961 (Paris: Flammarion, 1999); Jim House and Neil MacMaster, “Une Journée Portée Disparue: The Paris Massacre of 1961 and Memory”, in Kenneth Mouré and Martin S. Alexander, Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918‐1962 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002); and Joshua Cole, “Remembering the Battle of Paris: 17 October 1961 in French and Algerian Memory”, French Politics, Culture, and Society (Fall, 2003).

William Gardner Smith, The Stone Face (New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963).

Michel Fabre, From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991); and Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light (Boston: Houghton‐Mifflin, 1996).

LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., Portrait of an Expatriate: William Gardner Smith, Writer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985).

Richard Wright, “I Choose Exile”, unpublished essay, Department of Special Collections and Archives, Kent State University.

For example, several black American artists attended the 1931 Colonial Exposition in Paris, seeing it as a place to observe “real” Africans, rather than as an exercise in colonialist propaganda. See Theresa Leininger, New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001).

William Gardner Smith, “European Backdrop,” Pittsburg Courier, August 9, 1952, 12.

The Stone Face, 55.

Ibid., 106‐12.

Ibid., 132‐35.

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993); Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora, Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003); and Stuart Hall et al., Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall (London: Verso, 2000).

Penny Von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937‐1957 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997); Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000); Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and US Foreign Policy, 1935‐1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996); and, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945‐1988 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Gwendolyn Wright, The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991); Alice Conklin, Mission to Civilize: the Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895‐1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997); Herman Lebovics, True France: the Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900‐1945 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992); Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995).

Gary Wilder, “Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies beyond National Identity”, in Antoinette Burton, ed., After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003).

Benjamin Stora, La gangrène et l'oubli: la mémoire de la guerre d'Algérie (Paris: La Découverte, 1998). See also the forthcoming collection of essays by Patricia Lorçin, Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia: Algeria 1800‐2000.

William Gardner Smith, The Stone Face (New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963), 199‐211.

Les mots en italiques figurent en italiques et en français dans le texte, N.d.T.