Nicola Frith

The French Colonial Imagination

Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Drawing from texts produced during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, Nicola Frith foregrounds the extent to which British India acted as a counter-narrative in the construction of France's rival colonial discourse and its emerging "civilizing mission" alongside France's persistent desire to compensate for its "loss" of India at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780739180006
• ISBN-10: 0739180002
• Artikelnr.: 40332982

Autorenporträt

Nicola Frith is lecturer in French at Bangor University, UK, and is a specialist in Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Beyond the
Binary-Triangulating Colonial Discourse 2. A War of Words: The Politics of
Nomenclature 3. Villains and Heroes: Ventriloquizing the "Revolutionary' 4.
Massacring the Myth: Telling Tales of Revenge 5. Compensating for l'Inde
perdue: France's "Civilizing Mission" Conclusion: From Empire to Republic
Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author