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Lexington Books France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and La Fracture Coloniale

Name: France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and La Fracture Coloniale
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Frances Lost Empires brings together ten essays that collectively investigate the historical, cultural, and political legacies of French colonialism and, specifically, the endings of the French empire(s). Combining analyses of three lost territories (Canada, India, and Saint Dominigue) of the first French colonial empire, that of the Ancien Regime, with investigations of the decolonization of the new colonies of the second French overseas empire (specifically in North Africa), the essays presented here investigate the ways in whicih colonial loss has been absorbed and narrativized within French culture and society, and how nostalgia for that past has played a fundamental role in shaping French colonial discourses and memories. Beginning with the Haitian Revolution and its historicization during the 1820s and ending with an examination of the postcolonial republic at the end of the twentieth century, the chronological structure of the volume serves to reveal the extent to which the memories of territorial loss have been sustained throughout French colonial history and remain evident in current metropolitan representations and memories of empire. In analyzing the longevity of these tropes of loss and nostalgia, and their importance in shaping Frances identity as a colonial power both during and after periods of colonization, Frances Lost Empires reveals a basic premise: it is not simply successful conquest which creates a self-validating colonial discourse; failure can do so too. Indeed, the pervasive and tenacious nostalgia for past colonial glories, variously identified by the contributors to this volume, suggests that, for some, the emotional attachment to Frances colonies has not waned and remians today as it was in nineteenth-century France.

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Brand: Lexington Books
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0739148834
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 January 2011
Listed Since: 12 October 2010

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