Kate Marsh

Narratives of the French Empire

Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using fiction as a historical source, this study investigates how the French empire was construed and infused with meaning at three historical moments: 1784, 1835, and 1938. Showing how literary and more general conceptions of French colonialism were influenced by an awareness of how rival European powers had negotiated conquest and disengagement from empire, it illustrates how perceived loss and nostalgia for imperial pasts helped shape the French colonial enterprise across its various manifestations.

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Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France Nr.47
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780739176566
• ISBN-10: 0739176560
• Artikelnr.: 38438958

Autorenporträt

By Kate Marsh

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonial Encounters and Empires in Contact 2. Tahiti: La Nouvelle Cythère
the Morality of Colonialism
and Pseudo-Foreign Letters 3. Martinique
Slavery
and Emancipation: Louis de Maynard de Queilhe's Outre-mer 4. 'Une effrayante épidémie': The Red Threat
Indian Decolonization
and Désordres à Pondichéry 5. Competing Colonialisms
Competing Memories: The After-lives of Empire Conclusions Bibliography