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Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia

European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-349-34167-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Erscheinungstermin: 15.12.2011
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Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia.


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  • Artikelnummer: 9781349341672
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-349-34167-2
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
  • Erscheinungstermin: 15.12.2011
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2012
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 505 g
  • Seiten: 329
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 19 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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PART I: 1900-1930. COLONIAL WOMEN AND THEIR IMAGINED SELVES Women and their Colonial Worlds Nostalgia Personified: Isabelle Eberhardt and Karen Blixen PART II: 1920-1940. POLITICAL REALITIES AND FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS Reality Expressed; Reality Imagined: Colonial Women in Twenties Algeria and Kenya Writing and Living the Exotic [The Twenties] Women's Fictions of Colonial Realism [The Thirties] PART III: IMPERIAL DECLINE AND THE REFORMULATION OF NOSTALGIA Nationalist Anger; Colonial Illusions: Women's responses to Decolonization Happy Families, Red Strangers and 'A Vanishing Africa': Nostalgia Comes Full Circle