Narratives of the French empire : fiction, nostalgia, and imperial rivalries, 1784 to the present / / Kate Marsh

• Autore: Marsh Kate <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (151 p.)
• Disciplina: 843.009/358
• Soggetto topico: French fiction - History and criticism; Colonies in literature; Imperialism - Social aspects - France; Narration (Rhetoric)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Colonial encounters and empires in contact -- Tahiti: La nouvelle Cythère, the morality of colonialism, and pseudo-foreign letters -- Martinique, slavery, and emancipation: Louis de Maynard de Queilhe's outre-mer -- "Une effrayante épidémie": the red threat, Indian decolonization, and désordres à Pondichéry -- Competing colonialisms, competing memories: the after-lives of empire.
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span>"In this important new study, Kate Marsh takes a transnational approach to colonial and Francophone studies, analyzing three distinct literary texts over three centuries. She demonstrates convincingly that our understanding of empire must include the interactions of different imperial formations-specifically, the ways in which French colonialism compared itself to that of other European nations, notably Britain. Focusing on islands and colonial outposts rather than the great colonies of Africa and Asia, Marsh gives us a new portrait of France's colonial empire, one in which expansi
• Titolo autorizzato: Narratives of the French empire
• ISBN: 0-7391-7657-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464427303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: After the empire ; ; 47.