Author : Kate Marsh
Release : 2011
Genre : Collective memory
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 834/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis France's Lost Empires by : Kate Marsh
Download or read book France's Lost Empires written by Kate Marsh. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
