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France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale

France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale

Hardcover

Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra

French HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0739148834
ISBN13: 9780739148839
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 28 2010
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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