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The colonial fortune in contemporary fiction in French /

This book explores the 'colonial fortune' in light of contemporary concerns with issues of fate, economics, legacy, and debt and the persistence of the colonial in today's political and cultural conversation.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Panaïté, Oana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 46
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A primal scene : the colonial fortune
  • Part 1. From exotic destinations to colonial destinies. 1. Departures : orphans, heirs and adventurers ; 2. Landscape as vocation
  • Part 2. Writing as Africans. 3. Distant empathy ; 4. Maps of Frenchness : between self-invention and delusion
  • Part 3. Colonial remanence. 5. Algeria's mortified memory ; 6. A place of dialogue
  • An unpayable debt : for a paracolonial aesthetics.