Format:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
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ill
ISBN:
1283891085
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9781283891080
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9780812205183
Content:
This innovative analysis of sixteen- and seventeenth-century France introduces colonization into the heart of the nation's literary history by demonstrating how French classical culture and colonialism emerged together, each shaping the other.
Content:
Part I. France's Colonial Relation to the Ancient World -- Chapter 1. The Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns as a Colonial Battle: The Memory Wars over "Our Ancestors the Gauls" -- Chapter 2. The Return of the Submerged Story About France's Colonized Past in the Quarrel over Imitation -- Part II. France's Colonial Relation to the New World -- Chapter 3. Relating the New World Back to France: The Development of a New Genre, the Relations de Voyage -- Chapter 4. France's Colonial History: From Sauvages into Civilized, French Catholics -- Part II. Weaving the Two Colonial Stories Together: Escaping Barbarism -- Chapter 5. Interweaving the Nation's Colonial and Cultural Discourses -- Chapter 6. Imitation as a Civilizing Process or as a Voluntary Subjection? -- Chapter 7. Imitation and the "Classical" Path -- Chapter 8. Using the Sauvage as a Lever to Decolonize France from the Ancients -- Conclusion. The Legacy of the Quarrel: The Colonial Fracture
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812243635
Additional Edition:
Print version Colonizer or Colonized : The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture
Language:
English
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