LEADER 03692nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910463878503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89108-5 010 $a0-8122-0518-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205183 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065363 035 $a(OCoLC)793012718 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642702 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631107 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11389405 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631107 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591638 035 $a(PQKB)11355979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441950 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17649 035 $a(DE-B1597)449501 035 $a(OCoLC)979779115 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205183 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441950 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642702 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420358 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065363 100 $a20110722d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aColonizer or colonized$b[electronic resource] $ethe hidden stories of early modern French culture /$fSara E. Melzer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4363-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. I. France's colonial relation to the ancient world -- pt. II. France's colonial relation to the new world -- pt. III. Weaving the two colonial stories together : escaping barbarism. 330 $aColonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had colonized their ancestors, the Gauls. This memory put the elite on the defensive-defending against the legacy of this colonized past and the fear that they were the barbarian other. The second story mirrored the first. Just as the Romans had colonized the Gauls, France would colonize the New World, becoming the "New Rome" by creating a "New France." Borrowing the Roman strategy, the French Church and State developed an assimilationist stance towards the Amerindian "barbarian." This policy provided a foundation for what would become the nation's most basic stance towards the other. However, this version of assimilation, unlike its subsequent ones, encouraged the colonized and the colonizer to engage in close forms of contact, such as mixed marriages and communities.This book weaves these two different stories together in a triangulated dynamic. It asks the Ancients to step aside to include the New World other into a larger narrative in which elite France carved out their nation's emerging cultural identity in relation to both the New World and the Ancient World. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French$2bisacsh 607 $aFrance$xCivilization 607 $aFrance$xCivilization$xPhilosophy 607 $aFrance$xCivilization$xClassical influences 607 $aFrance$xColonies$zAmerica 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. 676 $a325.3/44097 700 $aMelzer$b Sara E$0927055 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463878503321 996 $aColonizer or colonized$92458558 997 $aUNINA