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This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh
(1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an
extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches,
encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and
cultural production across the Francophone world from the
eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within
engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French
colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives —
whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries;
loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body;
decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial
imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial
activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and
intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates
how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around
decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial
resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria
and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection
demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to
the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up
conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to
imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial
Studies.
Recent years have seen a growing body of literature dedicated to
memories of slavery in the Anglophone world, yet little has been
done to approach this subject from Francophone perspectives. This
collection responds to the urgent need to contribute to current
research on slavery and memory studies by focusing specifically on
the Francophone world. Featuring the scholarship of leading
academics in France, Britain, the United States and Canada, the
collection reflects upon contemporary commemorative practices that
relate to the history of slavery and the slave trade, and questions
how they function in relationship to other, less memorialized
histories of exploitation, such as indentured and forced labour.
The volume is set against the context of France's growing body of
memory legislation, as well as its close cultural and political
connections to its former empire, all of which make it an
influential player in how slavery continues to be memorialized and
conceptualized in the public sphere. Contributors retrace and
redraw the narrative map of slavery and its legacies in the
Francophone world through a comparative understanding of how these
different, but interconnected forms of labour exploitation have
been remembered and/or forgotten from European, West African,
Indian Ocean and Caribbean perspectives.
Recent years have seen a growing body of literature dedicated to
memories of slavery in the Anglophone world, yet little has been
done to approach this subject from Francophone perspectives. This
collection responds to the urgent need to contribute to current
research on slavery and memory studies by focusing specifically on
the Francophone world. Featuring the scholarship of leading
academics in France, Britain, the United States and Canada, the
collection reflects upon contemporary commemorative practices that
relate to the history of slavery and the slave trade, and questions
how they function in relationship to other, less memorialized
histories of exploitation, such as indentured and forced labour.
The volume is set against the context of France's growing body of
memory legislation, as well as its close cultural and political
connections to its former empire, all of which make it an
influential player in how slavery continues to be memorialized and
conceptualized in the public sphere. Contributors retrace and
redraw the narrative map of slavery and its legacies in the
Francophone world through a comparative understanding of how these
different, but interconnected forms of labour exploitation have
been remembered and/or forgotten from European, West African,
Indian Ocean and Caribbean perspectives.
France's Lost Empires brings together ten essays that collectively
investigate the historical, cultural, and political legacies of
French colonialism and, specifically, the endings of the French
empire(s). Combining analyses of three "lost" territories (Canada,
India, and Saint Dominigue) of the "first" French colonial empire,
that of the Ancien Regime, with investigations of the
decolonization of the "new" colonies of the "second" French
overseas empire (specifically in North Africa), the essays
presented here investigate the ways in whicih colonial loss has
been absorbed and narrativized within French culture and society,
and how nostalgia for that past has played a fundamental role in
shaping French colonial discourses and memories. Beginning with the
Haitian Revolution and its historicization during the 1820s and
ending with an examination of the "postcolonial" republic at the
end of the twentieth century, the chronological structure of the
volume serves to reveal the extent to which the memories of
territorial loss have been sustained throughout French colonial
history and remain evident in current metropolitan representations
and memories of empire. In analyzing the longevity of these tropes
of loss and nostalgia, and their importance in shaping France's
identity as a colonial power both during and after periods of
colonization, France's Lost Empires reveals a basic premise: it is
not simply successful conquest which creates a self-validating
colonial discourse; failure can do so too. Indeed, the pervasive
and tenacious nostalgia for past colonial glories, variously
identified by the contributors to this volume, suggests that, for
some, the emotional attachment to France's colonies has not waned
and remians today as it was in nineteenth-century France.
The Indian uprisings (1857-58) against British rule in India
represent an iconic period within the history of anti-colonial
resistance. Numerous works have considered these historical events
from British and Indian perspectives, but none have yet questioned
how they were viewed by Britain's foremost colonial rival in India,
the French. The French Colonial Imagination examines how the
potential for Britain to lose its most lucrative colony at the
hands its own colonial "subjects" allowed French writers to
envisage a world freed from British dominance. The uprisings
offered the attractive possibility that France could undergo a
colonial revival in the wake of British defeat, thereby reversing
the devastating losses inflicted upon France's former empire at the
end of the Napoleonic Wars. Notable among these losses was
Britain's decision (in the Treaty of 1814) to permanently reduce
France's presence in India to five small trading posts scattered
around the periphery of British territory. The extent to which to
the French colonial imagination of the nineteenth century was
shaped by the memories of such defeats forms a primary concern of
this monograph. This investigation into French responses to the
Indian uprisings reveals that French colonial discourse was
determined as much by its visions of the colonized "other," as by
the dominance of their British rivals. Drawing from journalistic,
historical, political, and fictional texts written during Louis
Napoleon's Second Empire (1852-70) and in the early years of the
Third Republic (1870-1944), The French Colonial Imagination shows
how the uprisings gave French writers the opportunity to speak out
against the rapacity of British colonialism and its treatment of
colonized Indians, while simultaneously constructing a competing
colonial discourse that would justify further expansion in North
Africa and South East Asia. Standing at a crossroads between the
"loss" of Ancien Regime's empire and the Third Republic's
ideological investment in overseas expansion, this understudied
period of colonial history reveals the centrality of loss,
fracture, and political emasculation as core preoccupations
haunting the French colonial discourse in its quest to regain
cultural and ideological ascendancy over its greatest political
enemy.
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