France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and La Fracture Coloniale

ISBN-13: 9780739148839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 202 str.

Kate Marsh

Opis

This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these essays call for a re-evaluation of French colonialism as a discourse informed not just by narratives of conquest, but equally by its histories of defeat.