Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination
Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism; 14;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 28 April 2009
- ISBN 9780415994675
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. Prasad's study is one of the first to carry out a sustained and comprehensive analysis of the French Romantic novel’s racial imagination that encompasses several sites of colonial contact: the Indian Ocean, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, and France. Its archival research and interdisciplinary approach shed new light on both canonical and non-canonical texts.
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Long description:
This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire de Duras, and Prosper Mérimée—comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. While the primary texts that come under investigation in the book are novels, close attention is paid to Romantic fiction’s interdependence with naturalist treatises, travel writing, abolitionist texts, and ethnographies.
Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination is one of the first books to carry out a sustained and comprehensive analysis of the French Romantic novel’s racial imagination that encompasses several sites of colonial contact: the Indian Ocean, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, and France. Its archival research and interdisciplinary approach shed new light on canonical texts and expose the reader to non-canonical ones. The book will be useful to students and academics involved with Romanticism, colonial historians, students and scholars of transatlantic studies and postcolonial studies, as well as those interested in questions of race and colonialism.
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Note on Translations, Pratima Prasad; Introduction, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 1 The White Native, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 2 The Métis, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 3 The Disciplined Savage, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 4 The Black Aristocrat, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 5 The Rebellious Slave, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 102 Epilogue, Pratima Prasad;
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