Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture

by Sara E. Melzer

Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had colonized their ancestors, the Gauls. This memory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243633
• ISBN13: 9780812243635
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"