The French Atlantic - Travels in Culture and History

Informationen zum Autor Bill Marshall is Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Stirling. Previous books include André Téchiné (Manchester University Press, 2007) France and the Americas (editor, Oxford & Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 3 vols. Musicals - Hollywood and Beyond (co-edited with R.Stilwell, Exeter: Intellect Books, 2000). Klappentext "The French Atlantic" is a compelling and timely contribution to ongoing debates about nationhood! culture! and "Frenchness" that have come to define France and its diaspora in light of the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war and other mass cultural events. With interdisciplinary navigation of fields nearly as diverse as the locations he explores! Bill Marshall considers the cultural history of seven different French Atlantic spaces--from Quebec to the southern Caribbean to North Atlantic territory and back to metropolitan France--in this groundbreaking study of the Atlantic world. Zusammenfassung History! notably the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war in 2003 and continued cultural nationalism on the part of French elites faced with the English language and American mass culture! has tended to put forth notions of France and America as antithetical. This book seeks to break these paradigms! and to speak of entwined cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Marshall, Bill (Department of French Religions Marshall
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.10.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9781846310508
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-050-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)