French Colonial Imagination - Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857 1858, From Second Empire to Third

Informationen zum Autor By Nicola Frith Klappentext The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Drawing from texts produced during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, Nicola Frith foregrounds the extent to which British India acted as a counter-narrative in the construction of France's rival colonial discourse and its emerging "civilizing mission" alongside France's persistent desire to compensate for its "loss" of India at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Beyond the Binary-Triangulating Colonial Discourse2. A War of Words: The Politics of Nomenclature3. Villains and Heroes: Ventriloquizing the "Revolutionary'4. Massacring the Myth: Telling Tales of Revenge5. Compensating for l'Inde perdue: France's "Civilizing Mission"Conclusion: From Empire to RepublicGlossaryBibliographyIndex About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Frith
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2014
• EAN: 9780739180006
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8000-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama