Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780415994675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 204 str.

Prasad Pratima

Opis

Investigating how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race, this work studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonised peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans.

Spis treści

Note on Translations Acknowledgments Introduction: Shaping the Colonial Subject in the Romantic Age 1. The White Native Insularity, "Indigenism" and Incest: the Paradoxes of Paul et Virginie 2. The Métis Plotting Colonial Intimacies: the Miscegenated Subjects of the Romantic Novel 3. The Disciplined Savage Old Losses, New Constructs: Chateaubriand and the Reinvention of the American Indian 4. The Black Aristocrat Ourika, or, Comment peut-on être noire? 5. The Rebellious Slave Black Spartacus: Colonial Revolt and Romantic Masculinities Epilogue: The Legacy of Romantic Colonialism Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Pratima Prasad is Assistant Professor of French, University of Massachusetts-Boston.