Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia : European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present

Name: Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9780230338654
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ISBN: 9780230338654

by P. Lorcin

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0230338658

ISBN-13 9780230338654

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 15th, 2011

Print length 329 Pages

Weight 626 grams

Dimensions 24.00 x 16.40 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Africa African languages Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -

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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.

This illuminating study of European women''s narratives in colonial Algeria and Kenya argues that nostalgia was not a post-colonial phenomenon but was embedded in the colonial period. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the distinction between imperial nostalgia, associated with the loss of power that results from the loss of empire, and colonial nostalgia, associated with loss of socio-cultural standing-in other words, loss of a certain way of life. This distinction helps to make women''s discursive role an important factor in the creation of colonial nostalgia, due to their significant contribution to the establishment of a European colonial environment.

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