Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World: From Nostalgia to Resistance (Francophone Postcolonial Studies #14)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2023

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ISBN-13:

9781835536926

Related ISBNs:

9781802078862, 9781837645220

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press

Date of Addition:

02/25/24

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Liverpool University Press and the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government

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Sarah Arens

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Nicola Frith

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Jonathan Lewis

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Rebekah Vince