Narratives of the French Empire - Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present

Informationen zum Autor By Kate Marsh Klappentext This book investigates 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. Zusammenfassung This book investigates 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonial Encounters and Empires in Contact 2. Tahiti: La Nouvelle Cythère, the Morality of Colonialism, and Pseudo-Foreign Letters 3. Martinique, Slavery, and Emancipation: Louis de Maynard de Queilhe's Outre-mer 4. 'Une effrayante épidémie': The Red Threat, Indian Decolonization, and Désordres à Pondichéry 5. Competing Colonialisms, Competing Memories: The After-lives of EmpireConclusionsBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Kate Marsh
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498556347
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5634-7
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies