P. Lorcin
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2011
9780230338654
Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia
European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9780230338654
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780230338654
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
PART I: 1900-1930. COLONIAL WOMEN AND THEIR IMAGINED SELVES Women and their Colonial Worlds Nostalgia Personified: Isabelle Eberhardt and Karen Blixen PART II: 1920-1940. POLITICAL REALITIES AND FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS Reality Expressed; Reality Imagined: Colonial Women in Twenties Algeria and Kenya Writing and Living the Exotic [The Twenties] Women's Fictions of Colonial Realism [The Thirties] PART III: IMPERIAL DECLINE AND THE REFORMULATION OF NOSTALGIA Nationalist Anger; Colonial Illusions: Women's responses to Decolonization Happy Families, Red Strangers and 'A Vanishing Africa': Nostalgia Comes Full Circle