The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars

ISBN-13: 9780226897684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str.

Gary Wilder

Opis

France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate." The French Imperial Nation-State" focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites.
Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, "The French Imperial Nation-State "will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes."