Revolutionary Papers

Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Leftanti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More

Sarah Miles

Sarah K. Miles is a global intellectual historian studying anticolonialism, revolution, and print culture in the twentieth-century francophone world. She is currently finishing her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral work examines the emergence of transnational print media networks that connected left-wing militants in France, Quebec, and Algeria in the 1960s and ‘70s and fostered a unique postcolonial revolutionary culture of readers and writers. She has written about anticolonial publications, militant editors, and the global history of ideas for the Journal of Caribbean History, Tocqueville 21, and The North African.

Journals presented by Sarah Miles

French, African, and Arab: Negotiating Post-Colonial Algerian Identity in Révolution Africaine Six months after Algeria won its independence, an unusual group of militants gathered in Algiers. Led by a Siamese-born French lawyer, Jacques Vergès, the group consisted of French and Algerian journalists, cartoonists, photographers, and militants. Their mission? To craft a new cultural and political […]