This innovative analysis of sixteen- and seventeenth-century France introduces colonization into the heart of the nation's literary history by demonstrating how French classical culture and colonialism emerged together, each shaping the other.
This innovative analysis of sixteen- and seventeenth-century France introduces colonization into the heart of the nation's literary history by demonstrating how French classical culture and colonialism emerged together, each shaping the other.
Sara E. Melzer is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensees and coeditor of From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France.
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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
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
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