Abbas, Ferhat

Algerian War; Camus’ condemnation of tactics of both sides; comparison with war in Iraq; relation of The Plague to

Algérie française

Ali la Pointe

allegory, in The Plague

anguish: of Algerians during war; of condemned criminal

Arabs; absence or anonymity of in Camus’ fictions; colonialist myths of; colonialists’ hatred and oppression of; as colonized French subjects or nationals in Algeria; living conditions of in Algeria; overlapping of condition and fate of French Algerians with; recognition of, as a people; as soldiers in French army; as victims of violence

Arendt, Hannah

Aronson, Ronald

assimilation; myth, promise, and failure of; Camus’ idea of

Balibar, Etienne

Barrès, Maurice

Barthes, Roland

Battle of Algiers

Beckett, Samuel

Berbers

borders, colonial; cultural; of Oran

Brasillach, Robert

Brée, Germaine

Cain

Camus, Albert: the absurd; agnosticism, religious and political; Algeria as true country of; anonymity, problem of; anticommunism; capital punishment, argument against; death penalty as legal or justified murder; editorialist at L’Express; portraits of colonizers in fictions; postcolonial critique of

Camus, Albert, works: “The Adulterous Woman” (“La femme adultère”); “Appeal for a Civilian Truce”; Algerian Reports (Chroniques algériennes); “Destitution of Kabylia” (“Misère de la Kabylie”); Exile and the Kingdom (L’exil et le royaume); The Fall (La Chute); The First Man (Le premier homme); “The Guest” (“L’hôte”); “The Just” (“Les justes”); “Manifesto of Intellectuals of Algeria in Favor of the Violette Project”; The Myth of Sisyphus (Le mythe de Sisyphe); “Neither Victims nor Executioners” (“Ni victimes ni bourreaux”); “The New Mediterranean Culture”; The Plague (La peste); The Rebel (L’homme révolté); “Reflections on the Guillotine” (“Réflexions sur la guillotine”); “The Renegade” (“Le renégat ou un esprit confus”); The Stranger (L’étranger)

Camus, Catherine (Camus’ daughter)

Camus, Catherine Hélène Sintès (Camus’ mother)

Camus, Lucien (Camus’ father)

Carlier, Omar

Césaire, Aimé

Cherki, Alice

civilizing mission (mission civilisatrice) of French colonialism

collaboration (with Nazi Germany)

colonialism; Camus’ criticism of; colonialist apology for; demise of; effects of; hospitality as antithesis of; as plague; similarities with Nazism

colonized (the); colonizers’ domination and hatred of; destitution of; humiliation of; invisibility or absence of; Meursault in the place of; reversal of position of; violence and

colonizers (colonialists, colons); Camus’ portraits of; as colons; liberal or leftist; Meursault as embodiment of; myth of first to arrive in Algeria; relation to colonized

Combat

Conklin, Alice

counterterrorism (counterterrorist)

Crémieux Decree

Daniel, Jean

democracy (democratic); critique of imperialist forms of; desire for in Algeria; perversion of in colonies

Derrida, Jacques

Dib, Mohamed

Djebar, Assia

education, colonized deprived of

ends and means

ethnicity; fictive

exclusion, interior (internal)

exile

Fanon, Frantz

Feraoun, Mouloud

FLN (Front de Libération Nationale); Camus’ opposition to; support for in France; use of terrorism

freedom

French Algeria (French Algerians)

French subjects (nationals)

de Gaulle, Charles

Gearhart, Suzanne

Girard, René

Guérin, Jeanyves

Harbi, Mohammed

hospitality; absolute or pure form of; in “The Guest” (“L’Hôte”); paradoxes of in a colonial context; trait of pieds-noirs

host

L’Humanité

hybridity, cultural

ideology; Camus’ critique of

Ignatius, David

injustice; of capital punishment; colonialist form of; of Nazi Germany and Vichy France

Iraq, war in

Isaac, Jeffrey C.

Jeanson, Francis

Jews, Algerian; persecution of

Judt, Tony

justice; for Arab and Berber Algerians; and capital punishment (murder); and ideology; and purge trials; in The Stranger

Kabyle (Kabylie)

Kessous, Aziz

Lauriol Plan

Lebjaoui, Mohamed

Lespès, René

Lévi-Valensi, Jacqueline

Lottman, Herbert

Lyotard, Jean-François

Marrus, Michael R.

Mauriac, François

McCarthy, Patrick

Mediterranean

Memmi, Albert

Mendès-France, Pierre

Mitterand, François

multicultural

natives (indigènes), in Algeria

Nazi Germany (Nazi)

new men, birth or creation of

Nora, Pierre

O’Brien, Conor Cruise

Occupation, the German

Oran; Camus’ depiction of in The Plague; colonialist depiction of

Ouzegane, Amir

Paxton, Robert O.

Péguy, Charles

Pélégri, Jean

Pétain, Philippe (Maréchal)

pieds-noirs; differences with French of continent; divided identity of; liberal minority of; and racism

politics, limits of

Poncet, Charles

Pontecorvo, Gillo (“The Battle of Algiers”)

postcolonial (postcolonialism)

purge trials

race

racism

realism, literary-historical; political

Rebatet, Lucien

resistance

Resistance, French

revolution (revolutionary); faith in and redemptive characteristics of; as justification for violence; represented by FLN

Saadi, Yassef

Said, Edward

salvation

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Sétif, massacre at

Soustelle, Jacques

Stora, Benjamin

terror, ideological climate and destructive effects of; of Nazi Germany; use in Algeria; revolutionary use of

terrorism (terrorist); Camus’ condemnation of; FLN use of; global war on; revolutionary justification for

Tillion, Germaine

Todd, Olivier

torture; French use of in Algerian War; Nazi use of

Vichy France

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre

violence: against civilians; of colonialist system and colonialists; as counterviolence; cycle of; defense and mystification of; Fanon on; of ideology and absolute faith, myth of origin of; in “The Renegade”; Sartre on; unlimited; of war

Walzer, Michael

“war on terrorism”

Weisberg, Richard

World War I

World War II