| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 131 pages) |
| Series |
After the empire: the francophone world and postcolonial France |
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After the empire.
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| Contents |
Colonial encounters and empires in contact -- Tahiti: La nouvelle Cythère, the morality of colonialism, and pseudo-foreign letters -- Martinique, slavery, and emancipation: Louis de Maynard de Queilhe's outre-mer -- "Une effrayante épidémie": the red threat, Indian decolonization, and désordres à Pondichéry -- Competing colonialisms, competing memories: the after-lives of empire |
| Summary |
Using fiction as a historical source, this study investigates how the French empire was construed and infused with meaning at three historical moments: 1784, 1835, and 1938. Showing how literary and more general conceptions of French colonialism were influenced by an awareness of how rival European powers had negotiated conquest and disengagement from empire, it illustrates how perceived loss and nostalgia for imperial pasts helped shape the French colonial enterprise across its various manifestations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-126) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
French fiction -- History and criticism
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Colonies in literature.
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Imperialism -- Social aspects -- France
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Colonies in literature
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French fiction
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Imperialism -- Social aspects
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Frankreichbild
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Kolonie Motiv
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Kolonialliteratur
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Französisch
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020738412 |
| ISBN |
9780739176573 |
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0739176579 |
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1306202922 |
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9781306202923 |
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