Sara E. Melzer

Colonizer or Colonized (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had colonized their ancestors, the Gauls. This memory put the elite on the defensive-defending against the legacy of this colonized past and the fear that they were the barbarian other. The second story mirrored the first. Just as the Romans had colonized the Gauls, France would colonize the New World, becoming the "New Rome" by creating a "New France." Borrowing the Roman strategy, the French Church and State developed an assimilationist stance towards the Amerindian "barbarian." This policy provided a foundation for what would become the nation's most basic stance towards the other. However, this version of assimilation, unlike its subsequent ones, encouraged the colonized and the colonizer to engage in close forms of contact, such as mixed marriages and communities. This book weaves these two different stories together in a triangulated dynamic. It asks the Ancients to step aside to include the New World other into a larger narrative in which elite France carved out their nation's emerging cultural identity in relation to both the New World and the Ancient World.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812205183
• Artikelnr.: 57113515

Autorenporträt

Sara E. Melzer

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I. FRANCE'S COLONIAL RELATION TO THE ANCIENT WORLD
Chapter 1. The Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns as a Colonial
Battle: The Memory Wars over "Our Ancestors the Gauls"
Chapter 2. The Return of the Submerged Story About France's Colonized Past
in the Quarrel over Imitation
PART II. FRANCE'S COLONIAL RELATION TO THE NEW WORLD
Chapter 3. Relating the New World Back to France: The Development of a New
Genre, the Relations de Voyage
Chapter 4. France's Colonial History: From Sauvages into Civilized, French
Catholics
PART III. WEAVING THE TWO COLONIAL STORIES TOGETHER: ESCAPING BARBARISM
Chapter 5. Interweaving the Nation's Colonial and Cultural Discourses
Chapter 6. Imitation as a Civilizing Process or as a Voluntary Subjection?
Chapter 7. Imitation and the "Classical" Path
Chapter 8. Using the Sauvage as a Lever to Decolonize France from the
Ancients
Conclusion. The Legacy of the Quarrel: The Colonial Fracture
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments