Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World : From Nostalgia to Resistance / edited by Sarah Arens [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arens, Sarah, editor.

Series:

Francophone postcolonial studies ; Volume 14.

Francophone Postcolonial Studies ; Volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization.

France--Colonies.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.;)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh's interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives - whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh's research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh's scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction (Sarah Arens, Nicola Frith, Jonathan Lewis and Rebekah Vince)

I Colonial Continuities and Nostalgia

1 Bayadères in the French Imagination: A Persistent Dance (Tessa Ashlin Nunn)

2 Jean-Paul Kauffmann: Nostalgia, Empire and Imagined Resurrections (Patrick Crowley)

3 A Russian Love Affair: Memory, Nostalgia and Trans-Imperial Connections (Srilata Ravi)

4 Colonialism, Race and Caribbean Migration: A History of the BUMIDOM (Antonia Wimbush)

5 Continuity or Rupture? Remapping the End of Empire in Marguerite Duras's 'Cycle Indien' (Julia Waters)

6 The Visible Other: Muslim Women, Feminism and National Identity in France (Edwige Crucifix)

Bridge

7 Slaves of Fashion. Indiennes: The Extended Triangle (The Singh Twins)

II Decoloniality and Transcolonial Modes of Resistance

8 Hidden Heritages and Unlikely Legacies: An Eastern Jerusalem in Hubert Haddad's Premières neiges sur Pondichéry (Rebekah Vince)

9 Decolonizing Collective Memory from Within: Rwandan Remembrance in Belgium and France (Catherine Gilbert)

10 Divided Worlds, Distorted Selves: Coloniality and the Process of Identification in Yasmina Khadra's Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (Abdelbaqi Ghorab)

11 The Enslaved Man in 'Un cœur simple': A Story within a Story (Sucheta Kapoor)

12 Mobility, Immobility and Transgression: Representations of Dangerous Travellers in Mounsi's La noce des fous (Jonathan Lewis)

13 Policing Black Anti-Colonial Activism in Interwar France: The Surveillance of Lamine Senghor in Fréjus, Marseille and Bordeaux (David Murphy)

Afterword (Charles Forsdick)

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83553-381-7

1-83764-522-1