Sara E Melzer

Colonizer or Colonized

The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243635
• ISBN-10: 0812243633
• Artikelnr.: 33876279

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