Colonial culture in France since the revolution [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas ; translated by Alexis Pernsteiner

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (644 p.)
• Disciplina: 325.320944
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism; Postcolonialism; Emigration and immigration
• Soggetto geografico: France Colonies Social aspects; France Colonies History; France Intellectual life 19th century; France Intellectual life 20th century; France Social life and customs 19th century; France Social life and customs 20th century; France Ethnic relations
• Altri autori: BlanchardPascal LemaireSandrine BancelNicolas ThomasDominic Richard David PernsteinerAlexis
• Note generali: Originally published in French as: Culture coloniale en France : de la Révolution française à nos jours (Paris : CNRS : Autrement, 2008), with the collaboration of the Groupe de recherche ACHAC.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the creation of a colonial culture in France, from the colonial era to the "memory wars" / Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas -- The creation of a colonial culture. Foreword : French colonization: an inaudible history / Marc Ferro -- Antislavery, abolitionism, and abolition in France from the end of the eighteenth century to the 1840s / Marcel Dorigny -- Milestones in colonial culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870) / Sandrine Lemaire, Pascal Blanchard, and Nicolas Bancel -- Exhibitions, expositions, media coverage, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Sandrine Lemaire and Pascal Blanchard -- Science, scientists, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Gilles Boëtsch -- Literature, song, and the colonies (1900-1920) / Alain Ruscio -- Entertainment, theater, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Sylvie Chalaye -- School, pedagogy, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Gilles Manceron -- Dying : the call of the empire (1913-1918) / Éric Deroo. -- ; Conquering public opinion. Foreword : history's mark (1931-1961) / Didier Daeninckx -- Dreaming : the fatal attraction of colonial cinema (1920-1950) / Olivier Barlet and Pascal Blanchard -- Spreading the word : the Agence générale des colonies (1920-1931) / Sandrine Lemaire -- To civilize : the invention of the native (1918-1940) / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard -- Selling the colonial economic myth (1900-1940) / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- The athletic exception : black champions and colonial culture (1900-1939) / Timothée Jobert, Stanislas Frenkiel, and Nicolas Bancel -- The colonial bath : colonial culture in everyday life (1918-1931) / Nicolas Bancel -- The Colonial Exposition (1931) / Steven Ungar -- National unity : the right and left "meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931) / Pascal Blanchard. -- ; The apogee of imperialism. Foreword : images of an empire's demise / Benjamin Stora -- Colonizing, educating, guiding : a republican duty / Françoise Vergès -- Promotion : creating the colonial (1930-1940) / Sandrine Lemaire -- Influence : cultural and ideological agendas (1920-1940) / David Murphy, Elizabeth Ezra and Charles Forsdick -- Education : becoming "homo imperialis" (1910-1940) / Nicolas Bancel and Daniel Denis -- Manipulation : conquering taste (1931-1939) / Sandrine Lemaire -- Control : Paris, a colonial capital (1931-1939) / Pascal Blanchard and Éric Deroo -- Imperial revolution : Vichy's colonial myth (1940-1944) / Pascal Blanchard and Ruth Ginio -- The colonial economy : between propaganda myths and economic reality (1940-1955) / Sandrine Lemaire, Catherine Hodeir, and Pascal Blanchard -- French unity : the dream of a united France (1946-1960) / Jacques Frémeaux. -- ; Toward the postcolony. Foreword : Moussa the African's blues / Abdourahman A. Waberi -- Decolonizing France : the "Indochinese syndrome" (1946-1954) / Daniel Hémery -- Immigration : the emergence of an African elite in the metropole (1946-1961) / Philippe Dewitte -- Immigration : North Africans settle in the metropole (1946-1961) / Pascal Blanchard, Éric Deroo, Driss el Yazami, Pierre Fournié, and Gilles Manceron -- Crime : colonial violence in the metropole (1954-1961) / Jean-Luc Einaudi -- Modernism, colonialism, and cultural hybridity / Herman Lebovics -- The meanders of colonial memory / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard -- The impossible revision of France's history (1968-2006) / Suzanne Citron -- National history and colonial history : parallel histories (1961-2006) / Sandrine Lemaire -- The illusion of decolonization (1956-2006) / Jean-Pierre Dozon -- The difficult art of exhibiting the colonies / Robert Aldrich. -- ; The time of inheritance. Foreword : the age of contempt, or the legitimization of France's civilizing mission / Bruno Etienne -- Trouble in the republic : disturbing memories, forgotten territories / Françoise Vergès -- Competition between victims / Esther Benbassa -- The army and the construction of immigration as a threat (1961-2006) / Mathieu Rigouste -- Postcolonial culture in the army and the memory of overseas combatants (1961-2006) / Christian Benoît, Antoine Champeaux, and Éric Deroo -- Republican integration : reflections on a postcolonial issue (1961-2006) / Vincent Geisser -- Colonial influences and tropes in the field of literature / Jean-Marc Moura -- From colonial history to the banlieues (1961-2006) / Dominique Vidal -- Can we speak of a postcolonial racism? (1961-2006) / Saïd Bouamama and Pierre Tevanian -- From colonial stereotypes to the postcolonial gaze : the need for an evolution of the imaginary / Dominique Wolton -- Postcolonial cinema, song, and literature : continuity or change? (1961-2006) / Delphine Robic-Diaz and Alain Ruscio -- Ethnic tourism : symbolic reconquest? (1961-2006) / Nicolas Bancel -- Francophonie and universality : the evolution of two intertwined notions (1961-2006) / Gabrielle Parker.
• Sommario/riassunto: This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonial culture in France since the revolution
• ISBN: 0-253-01053-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790514703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II