Emergences du 17 octobre 1961 dans le texte contemporain.

摘要

On October 17th 1961, a crowd of North-Africans demonstrates against a racist curfew. A decree from The Paris Chief of Police, Maurice Papon forbids the free circulation of North Africans or Arabs at dawn, at the pinnacle of the Algerian struggle for independence. Children, women and men are urged to leave their suburban ghettos and gather in Paris Intra-Muro by the FLN (National Liberal Front), a political group claiming independence for the French Departments we now know as Algeria. The night of October 1961 is deadly and many bodies of Algerians are thrown in the "Seine" River in Paris. More than 10 000 North African civilians are arrested and gathered in suburban stadiums for days. It is unclear today how many people lost their lives to the French police brutality; the estimation varies between 6 and 300.;The present study will first analyze the techniques of censorship used by the government to erase the event from the public sphere. The discourse on October 17th 1961 relies on a primary archive: the testimony. I argue that collections of testimonies are used as a medium to craft Collective Memory as theorized by Maurice Halbwachs. This recollection of a forgotten event is drawn through the methodology preconized by Michel Foucault in his Archeology of Knowledge, that is to say a correlation of historical, sociological, political texts in relation to the dense fictional discourse that has been restaging the event and superseding censorship as early as 1962. A survey of thirteen novels written between 1962 and 2009 proves that the state's attempts to govern memories failed. Literary discourses allow me conclude that October 17, 1961 remains an unresolved event. An amnesty covers all crimes committed during the Algerian war for independence, thus, forcing the novels to become a substitution for political action and recognition. France however refuses to acknowledge its responsibility in this event and continues to declare curfews during the riots of the Paris peripheral inhabitants in 2005.