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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786933003321

Autore

Frith Nicola <1974->

Titolo

The French colonial imagination : writing the Indian uprisings, 1858-1859, from second Empire to third Republic / / Nicola Frith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-8001-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

Disciplina

840.9/3358

Soggetti

French prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Colonialism in literature

Imperialism - Social aspects - France

India History Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Drawing from texts produced during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, Nicola Frith foregrounds the extent to which British India acted as a counter-narrative in the construction of France's rival colonial discourse and its emerging "civilizing mission" alongside France's persistent desire to compensate for its "loss" of India at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. </