Title Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia : European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (330 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 1900-1930. Colonial Women and Their Imagined Selves; 1 Paradoxical Lives: Women and their Colonial Worlds; 2 Nostalgia Personified: Isabelle Eberhardt and Karen Blixen; Part II: 1920-1940. Political Realities and Fictional Representations; 3 Reality Expressed; Reality Imagined: Algeria and Kenya in the Twenties; 4 Writing and Living the Exotic; 5 Women's Fictions of Colonial Realism; Part III: Imperial Decline and the Reformulation of Nostalgia; 6 Nationalist Anger Colonial Illusions: Women's Responses to Decolonization7 Happy Families, Pieds-Noirs, Red Strangers, and "a Vanishing Africa": Nostalgia Comes Full Circle; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia Notes Print version record Subject African literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century Women colonists -- Kenya -- History -- 21st century Women colonists -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century Women colonists -- Algeria -- History -- 21st century Women colonists -- Algeria -- History -- 20th century Nostalgia in literature. African literature -- History and criticism -- 21st century Literary studies: from c 1900 -- Algeria -- Kenya. Literature. African literature Nostalgia in literature Women colonists Algeria Kenya Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137013040 1137013044 0230338658 9780230338654

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