Writing Postcolonial France
Fiona Barclay
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Description for Writing Postcolonial France
Hardback. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its former colonies ... Read more
This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its former colonies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739145036
SKU
V9780739145036
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About Fiona Barclay
Fiona Barclay is lecturer in the school of languages, cultures, and religions at the University of Stirling.
Reviews for Writing Postcolonial France
If, since the publication of Derrida's Spectres de Marx in 1993, metaphors of haunting and spectrality have become abundant in both literary criticism and postcolonial theory, Barclay's book artfully redeploys such figures in her examination of France's memory of the colonial past. Drawing on a range of texts, each illustrating a differently 'haunted' relationship between French cultural consciousness and the ... Read more