| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 175 pages) |
| Series |
After the empire : the francophone world and postcolonial France |
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After the empire.
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| Contents |
Introduction : territorial loss and the construction of French colonial identities, 1763-1962 / Kate Marsh -- "Remember Saint Domingue" : accounts of the Haitian revolution by refugee planters in Paris and colonial debates under the restoration, 1814-25 / Yun Kyoung Kwon -- A celebration of empire : nostalgic representations of l'Inde française in Chocolat Suchard's colonial collecting cards of the 1930s / Kathryn Dale -- De Gaulle and the "debt of Louis XV" : how nostalgia shaped de Gaulle's North American foreign policy in the 1960s / Olivier Courteaux -- Between history, memory, and mythology : the Algerian education of Albert Camus / John Strachan -- Alexandre Arcady and the rewriting of French colonial history in Algeria / Sophie Watt -- Compensating for l'Inde perdue : narrating a special relationship between France and India in romanticized tales of the Indian uprisings (1857-1858) / Nicola Frith -- L'Inde retrouvée : loss and sovereignty in French Calicut, 1867-1868 / Akhila Yechury -- Alexandra Dumas's and Jules Verne's India : the French republic of letters discusses imperial historiography / Indra N. Mukhopadhyay -- "Le symbole de l'Afrique perdue" : Carnoux-en-Provence and the Pied-Noir community / Claire Eldridge -- La république postcoloniale? : making the nation in late-twentieth-century France / Emile Chabal |
| Summary |
This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these essays call for a re-evaluation of French colonialism as a discourse informed not just by narratives of conquest, but equally by its histories of defeat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- France
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Decolonization -- Social aspects -- France
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects -- France
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Collective memory -- France
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Collective memory
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Decolonization -- Social aspects
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French colonies
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Imperialism -- Social aspects
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects
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Gesellschaft
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Kolonie
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Postkolonialismus
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Colonies -- History
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| Subject |
France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marsh, Kate, 1974-2019
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Frith, Nicola, 1974-
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| ISBN |
9781461633501 |
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1461633508 |
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9781283851220 |
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1283851229 |
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