03941nam 22008895 450 991095792280332120240505204956.09786613658081978128068114112806811449781137013040113701304410.1057/9781137013040(CKB)2560000000080461(EBL)931777(OCoLC)795120188(SSID)ssj0000656410(PQKBManifestationID)11465201(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656410(PQKBWorkID)10631510(PQKB)11218789(DE-He213)978-1-137-01304-0(MiAaPQ)EBC931777(Perlego)3507791(EXLCZ)99256000000008046120151207d2012 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHistoricizing Colonial Nostalgia European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present /by P. Lorcin1st ed. 2012.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2012.1 online resource (330 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349341672 1349341673 9780230338654 0230338658 Includes bibliographical references (p.[273]-305) and index.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 AngerColonial Illusions: Women's Responses to Decolonization7 Happy Families, Pieds-Noirs, Red Strangers, and ""a Vanishing Africa"": Nostalgia Comes Full Circle; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis 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 nostalgia, associated with loss of socio-cultural standing-in other words, loss of a certain way of life. This distinction helps to make women's discursive role an important factor in the creation of colonial nostalgia, due to their significant contribution to the establishment of a European colonial environment.AfricaHistorySocial historyAfrican literatureAfrican languagesEuropeHistoryHistory, ModernAfrican HistorySocial HistoryAfrican LiteratureAfrican LanguagesEuropean HistoryModern HistoryAfricaHistory.Social history.African literature.African languages.EuropeHistory.History, Modern.African History.Social History.African Literature.African Languages.European History.Modern History.809.89287096Lorcin Patricia M. E1790897MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957922803321Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia4327716UNINA