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Writing postcolonial France : haunting, literature, and the Maghreb /
This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fict...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xliv, 152 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739145050 0739145053 128316339X 9781283163392 9786613163394 6613163392 |