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Narratives of the French Empire - Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present (Hardcover)
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Narratives of the French Empire - Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present (Hardcover)
Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three
literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of
Tahiti, and the established colonial systems in Martinique and in
India. The study is the first in either English or French to
demonstrate that representations of power relations, as well as the
broader discourses with which they were linked, were as closely
concerned with probing the similarities and differences of rival
European colonial systems as they were with reinforcing their
imagined superiority over the colonized, and that such power
relations should not be conceptualized as a dualistic
categorization of 'colonizer' versus 'colonized'. In doing so, it
aims to go beyond examining the interaction between colonized and
colonizer, or between colonial centre and periphery, and to
interrogate instead the circulation of ideas and practices across
different sites of European colonialism, drawing attention to a
historical complexity which has been neglected in the necessary
race to recover voices previously occluded from academic analysis.
In exploring how the notion of the French empire overseas was
construed and how it was infused with meaning at three different
historical moments, 1784, 1835 and 1938, it demonstrates how
precarious the French empire was perceived to be, in terms of both
European rivalry and resistance from the colonized, and how the
rhetoric of a French colonisation douce was pitted against the
inscribed excesses of the more powerful British empire. Rather than
employing the sorts of recuperative agenda which focus on how the
colonized were elided (viz., Subaltern Studies) or on the writings
of the formerly colonized (viz., Francophone Studies), the study
concerns itself specifically with how French colonialism and
imperialism were perceived, and thus offers a further corrective to
any generalizations about European colonialism and imperialism.
More particularly, by examining how the representational strategy
of nostalgia is used in these texts, the study demonstrates how
perceived loss, and nostalgia for an imperial past, played a role
in dynamically shaping the French colonial enterprise across its
various manifestations.
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