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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lorcin, Patricia M. E. M. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Temas:
1900-2099
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.
Littérature africaine > Histoire et critique > 20e siècle.
Femmes colons (Colonisation) > Kenya > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Femmes colons (Colonisation) > Kenya > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes colons (Colonisation) > Algérie > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Femmes colons (Colonisation) > Algérie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Nostalgie dans la littérature.
Littérature africaine > Histoire et critique > 21e siècle.
Literary studies: from c 1900 > Algeria > Kenya.
Literature.
African literature
Nostalgia in literature
Women colonists
Algeria
Kenya
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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