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Autore |
Lorcin Patricia M. E |
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Titolo |
Historicizing colonial nostalgia : European women's narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-present / / Patricia M.E. Lorcin |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, NY, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-68114-4 |
9786613658081 |
1-137-01304-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Women authors |
Women colonists - Algeria |
Women colonists - Kenya |
Nostalgia in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[273]-305) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 1900-1930. Colonial Women and Their Imagined Selves; 1 Paradoxical Lives: Women and their Colonial Worlds; 2 Nostalgia Personified: Isabelle Eberhardt and Karen Blixen; Part II: 1920-1940. Political Realities and Fictional Representations; 3 Reality Expressed; Reality Imagined: Algeria and Kenya in the Twenties; 4 Writing and Living the Exotic; 5 Women's Fictions of Colonial Realism; Part III: Imperial Decline and the Reformulation of Nostalgia; 6 Nationalist Anger |
Colonial Illusions: Women's Responses to Decolonization7 Happy Families, Pieds-Noirs, Red Strangers, and ""a Vanishing Africa"": Nostalgia Comes Full Circle; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This illuminating study of European women's narratives in colonial Algeria and Kenya argues that nostalgia was not a post-colonial phenomenon but was embedded in the colonial period. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the distinction between imperial nostalgia, associated with the loss of power that results from the loss of empire, and colonial |
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