Narratives Of The French Empire
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Narratives Of The French Empire
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Author : Kate Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-08-28
Narratives Of The French Empire written by Kate Marsh and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the established colonial systems in Martinique and in India. The study is the first in either English or French to demonstrate that representations of power relations, as well as the broader discourses with which they were linked, were as closely concerned with probing the similarities and differences of rival European colonial systems as they were with reinforcing their imagined superiority over the colonized, and that such power relations should not be conceptualized as a dualistic categorization of ‘colonizer’ versus ‘colonized’. In doing so, it aims to go beyond examining the interaction between colonized and colonizer, or between colonial centre and periphery, and to interrogate instead the circulation of ideas and practices across different sites of European colonialism, drawing attention to a historical complexity which has been neglected in the necessary race to recover voices previously occluded from academic analysis. In exploring how the notion of the French empire overseas was construed and how it was infused with meaning at three different historical moments, 1784, 1835 and 1938, it demonstrates how precarious the French empire was perceived to be, in terms of both European rivalry and resistance from the colonized, and how the rhetoric of a French colonisation douce was pitted against the inscribed excesses of the more powerful British empire. Rather than employing the sorts of recuperative agenda which focus on how the colonized were elided (viz., Subaltern Studies) or on the writings of the formerly colonized (viz., Francophone Studies), the study concerns itself specifically with how French colonialism and imperialism were perceived, and thus offers a further corrective to any generalizations about European colonialism and imperialism. More particularly, by examining how the representational strategy of nostalgia is used in these texts, the study demonstrates how perceived loss, and nostalgia for an imperial past, played a role in dynamically shaping the French colonial enterprise across its various manifestations.
France S Colonial Legacies
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Author : Fiona Barclay
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
France S Colonial Legacies written by Fiona Barclay and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the French parliament, media and universities. France's empire and the gradual process of its loss is one of the defining narratives of the contemporary nation, contributing to the construction of its image both on the international stage and at home. While certain intellectuals present the imperial period as an historical irrelevance that ended in the years following the Second World War, the contested legacies of France's colonies continue to influence the development of French society in the view of scholars of the postcolonial. This volume surveys the memorial practices and discourses that are played out in a range of arenas, drawing on the expertise of researchers working in the fields of politics, media, cultural studies, literature and film to offer a wide-ranging picture of remembrance in contemporary France. Introduction: The Postcolonial Nation, Fiona Barclay Part One: Narrative Gaps 1. Amnesia about Anglophone Africa: France’s Rhodesian mind-set, its manifestations and its legacies, 1947–58, Joanna Warson 2. From ‘écrivains coloniaux’ to écrivains de ‘langue française’: strata of un/acknowledged memories, Gabrielle Parker Part Two: The Algerian War, Fifty Years On 3. Conflicting memories: modernisation, colonialism and the Algerian war appelés in Cinq colonnes à la une, Iain Mossman 4. Derrida’s virtual space of spectrality: cinematic haunting and the law in Mon Colonel (Herbiet, 2006), Fiona Barclay 5. ‘Le devoir de mémoire’: the poetics and politics of cultural memory in Assia Djebar’s Le Blanc de l’Algérie, Jennifer Mullen 6. (Un)packing the suitcases: postcolonial memory and iconography, William Kidd Part Three: The Transnational Family 7. Interrogating the transnational family: memory, identity and cultural bilingualism in Sous la clarté de la lune (Traoré, 2004), Zélie Asava 8. Continuity and discontinuity in the family: looking beyond the post-colonial in Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (Claudel, 2008), Fiona Handyside Part Four: Contemporary Commemorations 9. Anti-racism, republicanism and the Sarkozy years: SOS Racisme and the Mouvement des Indigènes de la République, Thomas Martin 10. Playing out the postcolonial: football and commemoration, Cathal Kilcline 11. Crime and penitence in slavery commemoration: from political controversy to the politics of performance, Nicola Frith
The History Of Napoleon Iii Emperor Of The French
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Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
The History Of Napoleon Iii Emperor Of The French written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Europe categories.
Narrative Of Events During The Invasion Of Russia By Napoleon Bonaparte And The Retreat Of The French Army 1812
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Author : Sir Robert Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Narrative Of Events During The Invasion Of Russia By Napoleon Bonaparte And The Retreat Of The French Army 1812 written by Sir Robert Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 categories.
Free And French In The Caribbean
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Author : John Patrick Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-12
Free And French In The Caribbean written by John Patrick Walsh and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with History categories.
“All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature.”—Daniel Desormeaux, University of Chicago In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946. Walsh emphasizes the connections between these events and the distinct legacies of emancipation in the narratives of revolution and nationhood passed on to successive generations. By reexamining Louverture and Césaire in light of their multilayered narratives, the book offers a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary phenomenon of “free and French” in the Caribbean. “A fruitful intervention in a growing body of literature and increasingly lively debate on the Haitian Revolution and the figure of Toussaint Louverture, the book also contributes to the emerging scholarship on Césaire, Francophone literature, and postcolonial theory.”—Gary Wilder, CUNY Graduate Center “A valuable contribution to both the rapidly proliferating literature on the Haitian Revolution and the emerging revisionist appreciation of Césaire’s intellectual and political project.”—Small Axe “J.P. Walsh has produced for the nonspecialist reader an excellent analysis of the historiographical discourse on Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire with a focus on the meaning(s) of decolonization in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.”—New West Indian Guide “That Free and French inspires so many questions is testament to its ambition, the provocative parallel at its heart, and the richness of Walsh’s analysis.”—H-Empire
Narrative Of All The Principal Occurrences Which Took Place During The Last Two Years Of The Reign Of Buonaparte
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1814
Narrative Of All The Principal Occurrences Which Took Place During The Last Two Years Of The Reign Of Buonaparte written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1814 with Leipzig (Germany), Battle of, 1813 categories.
A Circumstantial Narrative Of The Campaign In Russia
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Author : Eugène Labaume
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-25
A Circumstantial Narrative Of The Campaign In Russia written by Eugène Labaume and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-25 with History categories.
The 29th Bulletin of the Grand Armée of the French Empire arrived in the heart of Paris on the 16th of December 1812, causing an uproar and consternation. Napoleon admitted that he had lost huge numbers of the troops during the Russian campaign and had been forced to retreat. In a master work of half-truths and omissions, Napoleon attempted to put all of his talents of spin to revealing the extent of the disaster, as if to cheer the war-weary population of his Empire to the end with a flourish—“ The health of his Majesty was never better.” The health of the remaining survivors as they struggled back through the staggering cold, with few rations, constant attacks and little hope, was very different to that of their master. Captain Labaume trudged through the ice in the company of Napoleon’s step-son Eugène with the remnants of the Italian troops. With each step he grew more determined to ensure that the loss of his comrades would not be in vain. He wrote his version of the events during the march using gunpowder and melted snow for ink. Published after Napoleon’s fall in 1814, Labaume revealed the shocking truth behind the campaign: the incompetence, bloodshed, hunger, selfishness, horror and suffering. It caused a sensation in France and was rapidly translated into English, going through many, many editions. As visceral, gripping and graphic an account of the horrors of war as ever was written. Author — Labaume, Eugène, 1783-1849. Translator — Anon. Text taken, whole and complete, from the third edition published in London. Printed for Samuel Leigh, in the Strand, 1815 Original - viii, 442 p. Illustrations – The Plans cannot be included due to their size [A3]
Narrative Of Events During The Invasion Of Russia By Napoleon Bonaparte And The Retreat Of The Franch Army 1812
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Author : Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Narrative Of Events During The Invasion Of Russia By Napoleon Bonaparte And The Retreat Of The Franch Army 1812 written by Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.
France S Lost Empires
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Author : Kate Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2011
France S Lost Empires written by Kate Marsh and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Collective memory categories.
This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these essays call for a re-evaluation of French colonialism as a discourse informed not just by narratives of conquest, but equally by its histories of defeat.
The Island Empire Or The Scenes Of The First Exile Of The Emperor Napoleon I Together With A Narrative Of His Residence On The Island Of Elba Taken From Local Information The Papers Of The British Resident And Other Authentic Sources
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Author : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
The Island Empire Or The Scenes Of The First Exile Of The Emperor Napoleon I Together With A Narrative Of His Residence On The Island Of Elba Taken From Local Information The Papers Of The British Resident And Other Authentic Sources written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Elba (Italy) categories.