The French Colonial Imagination
Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic
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ISBN-13:
9780739180006
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2014
Seiten:
228
Autor:
Nicola Frith
Gewicht:
529 g
Format:
235x157x18 mm
Serie:
After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Drawing from texts produced during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, Nicola Frith foregrounds the extent to which British India acted as a counter-narrative in the construction of France's rival colonial discourse and its emerging "civilizing mission" alongside France's persistent desire to compensate for its "loss" of India at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Beyond the Binary-Triangulating Colonial Discourse 2. A War of Words: The Politics of Nomenclature 3. Villains and Heroes: Ventriloquizing the "Revolutionary' 4. Massacring the Myth: Telling Tales of Revenge 5. Compensating for l'Inde perdue: France's "Civilizing Mission" Conclusion: From Empire to Republic Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author