France's lost empires : fragmentation, nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale /

This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marsh, Kate, 1974-2019, Frith, Nicola, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011.
Colección:After the empire.
Temas:
Imperialism > Social aspects > France.
Decolonization > Social aspects > France.
Postcolonialism > Social aspects > France.
Collective memory > France.
Impérialisme > Aspect social > France.
Décolonisation > Aspect social > France.
Postcolonialisme > Aspect social > France.
Mémoire collective > France.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Collective memory
Decolonization > Social aspects
French colonies
Imperialism > Social aspects
Postcolonialism > Social aspects
Gesellschaft
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Kolonie
Postkolonialismus
France > Colonies > History.
France > Colonies > Histoire.
France
Frankreich
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : territorial loss and the construction of French colonial identities, 1763-1962 / Kate Marsh
  • "Remember Saint Domingue" : accounts of the Haitian revolution by refugee planters in Paris and colonial debates under the restoration, 1814-25 / Yun Kyoung Kwon
  • A celebration of empire : nostalgic representations of l'Inde française in Chocolat Suchard's colonial collecting cards of the 1930s / Kathryn Dale
  • De Gaulle and the "debt of Louis XV" : how nostalgia shaped de Gaulle's North American foreign policy in the 1960s / Olivier Courteaux
  • Between history, memory, and mythology : the Algerian education of Albert Camus / John Strachan
  • Alexandre Arcady and the rewriting of French colonial history in Algeria / Sophie Watt
  • Compensating for l'Inde perdue : narrating a special relationship between France and India in romanticized tales of the Indian uprisings (1857-1858) / Nicola Frith
  • L'Inde retrouvée : loss and sovereignty in French Calicut, 1867-1868 / Akhila Yechury
  • Alexandra Dumas's and Jules Verne's India : the French republic of letters discusses imperial historiography / Indra N. Mukhopadhyay
  • "Le symbole de l'Afrique perdue" : Carnoux-en-Provence and the Pied-Noir community / Claire Eldridge
  • La république postcoloniale? : making the nation in late-twentieth-century France / Emile Chabal.

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