Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia : European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present
by
P. Lorcin
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Hardback or Cased Book
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:
AfricaAfrican languagesLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary 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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