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

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.

List of contents

PART I: 1900-1930. COLONIAL WOMEN AND THEIR IMAGINED SELVES
1. 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: Colonial Women in Twenties Algeria and Kenya
4. Writing and Living the Exotic [The Twenties]
5. Women's Fictions of Colonial Realism [The Thirties]
PART III: IMPERIAL DECLINE AND THE REFORMULATION OF NOSTALGIA
6. Nationalist Anger; Colonial Illusions: Women's responses to Decolonization
7. Happy Families, Red Strangers and 'A Vanishing Africa': Nostalgia Comes Full Circle

About the author

Patricia M. E. Lorcin

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.

Product details

• Authors: P. Lorcin, Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Patricia M.e. Lorcin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781137414786
• ISBN: 978-1-137-41478-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous