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Exile to paradise : savagery and civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900 / Alice Bullard.
LIBRA DU720 .B8 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bullard, Alice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kanak (New Caledonian people).
- History.
- Prisons.
- New Caledonia--History--19th century.
- New Caledonia.
- France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940.
- France.
- Prisons--New Caledonia--19th century.
- Kanak (New Caledonian people)--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This is the strange story of how, following the failure of the revolutionary Paris Commune in 1871, some 4,500 Communards were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia. The surprising parallels and interactions between the " political savages" and the " natural savages, " the Melanesian Kanak, in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization, form the subject of this book.
- Contents:
- Civilization: Teleology for Modern France
- Becoming savage? The first step toward civilization and the practices of intransigence in New Caledonia
- Cleansing Paris of Le Peuple
- The ideal subject for the Third Republic
- Variations on a French western
- Improper subjectivity: Recuperating the category of affect in French colonial policy
- Fatal nostalgia
- Hybridity or humanitarianism?
- The rigors of reconciliation: Amnesty, torture, and political life
- Conclusion- fin-de-siecle republicanism: Le Peuple as Holy Ghost.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [334]-366) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804738785
- OCLC:
- 45848256
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