France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739148834
• ISBN13: 9780739148839
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"