Colonial culture in France since the revolution /
edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas ; translated by Alexis Pernsteiner.
- 1 online resource (644 pages)
Originally published in French as: Culture coloniale en France : de la Revolution francaise a nos jours (Paris : CNRS : Autrement, 2008), with the collaboration of the Groupe de recherche ACHAC.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the creation of a colonial culture in France, from the colonial era to the "memory wars" / The creation of a colonial culture. Foreword : French colonization: an inaudible history / Antislavery, abolitionism, and abolition in France from the end of the eighteenth century to the 1840s / Milestones in colonial culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870) / Exhibitions, expositions, media coverage, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Science, scientists, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Literature, song, and the colonies (1900-1920) / Entertainment, theater, and the colonies (1870-1914) / School, pedagogy, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Dying : the call of the empire (1913-1918) / Eric Deroo. -- Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas -- Marc Ferro -- Marcel Dorigny -- Sandrine Lemaire, Pascal Blanchard, and Nicolas Bancel -- Sandrine Lemaire and Pascal Blanchard -- Gilles Boetsch -- Alain Ruscio -- Sylvie Chalaye -- Gilles Manceron -- Conquering public opinion. Foreword : history's mark (1931-1961) / Dreaming : the fatal attraction of colonial cinema (1920-1950) / Spreading the word : the Agence generale des colonies (1920-1931) / To civilize : the invention of the native (1918-1940) / Selling the colonial economic myth (1900-1940) / The athletic exception : black champions and colonial culture (1900-1939) / The colonial bath : colonial culture in everyday life (1918-1931) / The Colonial Exposition (1931) / National unity : the right and left "meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931) / Didier Daeninckx -- Olivier Barlet and Pascal Blanchard -- Sandrine Lemaire -- Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard -- Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- Timothee Jobert, Stanislas Frenkiel, and Nicolas Bancel -- Nicolas Bancel -- Steven Ungar -- Pascal Blanchard. -- The apogee of imperialism. Foreword : images of an empire's demise / Colonizing, educating, guiding : a republican duty / Promotion : creating the colonial (1930-1940) / Influence : cultural and ideological agendas (1920-1940) / Education : becoming "homo imperialis" (1910-1940) / Manipulation : conquering taste (1931-1939) / Control : Paris, a colonial capital (1931-1939) / Imperial revolution : Vichy's colonial myth (1940-1944) / The colonial economy : between propaganda myths and economic reality (1940-1955) / French unity : the dream of a united France (1946-1960) / Benjamin Stora -- Francoise Verges -- Sandrine Lemaire -- David Murphy, Elizabeth Ezra and Charles Forsdick -- Nicolas Bancel and Daniel Denis -- Sandrine Lemaire -- Pascal Blanchard and Eric Deroo -- Pascal Blanchard and Ruth Ginio -- Sandrine Lemaire, Catherine Hodeir, and Pascal Blanchard -- Jacques Fremeaux. -- Toward the postcolony. Foreword : Moussa the African's blues / Decolonizing France : the "Indochinese syndrome" (1946-1954) / Immigration : the emergence of an African elite in the metropole (1946-1961) / Immigration : North Africans settle in the metropole (1946-1961) / Crime : colonial violence in the metropole (1954-1961) / Modernism, colonialism, and cultural hybridity / The meanders of colonial memory / The impossible revision of France's history (1968-2006) / National history and colonial history : parallel histories (1961-2006) / The illusion of decolonization (1956-2006) / The difficult art of exhibiting the colonies / Abdourahman A. Waberi -- Daniel Hemery -- Philippe Dewitte -- Pascal Blanchard, Eric Deroo, Driss el Yazami, Pierre Fournie, and Gilles Manceron -- Jean-Luc Einaudi -- Herman Lebovics -- Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard -- Suzanne Citron -- Sandrine Lemaire -- Jean-Pierre Dozon -- Robert Aldrich. -- The time of inheritance. Foreword : the age of contempt, or the legitimization of France's civilizing mission / Trouble in the republic : disturbing memories, forgotten territories / Competition between victims / The army and the construction of immigration as a threat (1961-2006) / Postcolonial culture in the army and the memory of overseas combatants (1961-2006) / Republican integration : reflections on a postcolonial issue (1961-2006) / Colonial influences and tropes in the field of literature / From colonial history to the banlieues (1961-2006) / Can we speak of a postcolonial racism? (1961-2006) / From colonial stereotypes to the postcolonial gaze : the need for an evolution of the imaginary / Postcolonial cinema, song, and literature : continuity or change? (1961-2006) / Ethnic tourism : symbolic reconquest? (1961-2006) / Francophonie and universality : the evolution of two intertwined notions (1961-2006) / Bruno Etienne -- Francoise Verges -- Esther Benbassa -- Mathieu Rigouste -- Christian Benoit, Antoine Champeaux, and Eric Deroo -- Vincent Geisser -- Jean-Marc Moura -- Dominique Vidal -- Said Bouamama and Pierre Tevanian -- Dominique Wolton -- Delphine Robic-Diaz and Alain Ruscio -- Nicolas Bancel -- Gabrielle Parker.
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Imperialism.
France--Colonies--Social aspects. France--Colonies--History. France--Intellectual life--19th century. France--Intellectual life--20th century. France--Social life and customs--19th century. France--Social life and customs--20th century. France--Ethnic relations.