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France's Lost Empires
Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale
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2010
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France's 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 France's identity as a colonial power both during and after periods of colonization, France's 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 France's colonies has not waned and remians today as it was in nineteenth-century France.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4883-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3350-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
175
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Territorial Loss and the Construction of French Colonial Identities, 1763–1962 No access Pages 1 - 14
1: "Remember Saint Domingue": Accounts of the Haitian Revolution by Refugee Planters in Paris and Colonial Debates under the Restoration, 1814–1825 No access
2: A Celebration of Empire: Nostalgic Representations of l' Inde française in Chocolat Suchard's Colonial Collecting Cards of the 1930s No access
3: De Gaulle and the "Debt of Louis XV": How Nostalgia Shaped de Gaulle's North American Foreign Policy in the 1960s No access
4: Between History, Memory, and Mythology: The Algerian Education of Albert Camus No access
5: Alexandre Arcady and the Rewriting of French Colonial History in Algeria No access
6: Compensating for l'Inde perdue: Narrating a "Special Relationship" between France and India in Romanticized Tales of the Indian Uprisings (1857–1858) No access
7: L 'Inde retrouvée: Loss and Sovereignty in French Calicut, 1867–1868 No access
8: Alexandre Dumas's and Jules Verne's India: The French Republic of Letters Discusses Imperial Historiography No access
9: "Le symbole de 1'Afrique Perdue": Carnoux-en-Provence and the Pied-noir Community No access
10: La République Postcoloniale? Making the Nation in Late Twentieth-Century France No access
