France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations
of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human
displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine
Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more subtly in the
avant-garde writings of Rene Crevel and Raymond Roussel. In her
lively book, Elizabeth Ezra interprets a fascinating array of
cultural products to uncover what she terms the "colonial
unconscious" of the Jazz Age -- the simultaneous attraction and
repulsion of exoticism and the double bind of a colonial discourse
that foreclosed the possibility of the very assimilation it
invited.
Ezra situates the apotheosis of French colonialism in relation
to both the internal tensions of the colonial project and the
competing imperialisms of Great Britain and the United States.
Examining both the uses and the limits of psychoanalytic theories
of empire, she proposes a reading of French colonialism which,
while historically specific, also contributes to our understanding
of contemporary culture. The enduring legacy of empire is felt to
this day, as Ezra demonstrates in a provocative epilogue on the
remarkable similarities between the rhetoric of colonial France and
accounts of the French victory in the 1998 World Cup.
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