The French Atlantic
Travels in Culture and History
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; 9;
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Product details:
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Date of Publication 15 October 2009
- ISBN 9781846310515
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
Recent history, notably the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war in 2003 and continued cultural nationalism on the part of French elites faced with the English language and American mass culture, has tended to put forth notions of ‘France’ and ‘America’ as antithetical. This book seeks to break these paradigms, and to speak of entwined cultures and histories, promoting diasporic notions of Frenchness. The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History, is an attempt to intervene in these debates and paradigms in the French and American public spheres, and in university disciplines, particularly in French studies, but also has relevance for American studies, comparative literature, film and cultural studies, history, Iberian and Latin-American Studies, and postcolonial studies. After a theoretical introduction, it explores the cultural history of seven different French Atlantic spaces, all the time attentive to the material determinants of their existence in the Atlantic world. Two are in metropolitan France, one is a French North Atlantic territory, one is in Quebec, one in the United States/northern Caribbean, one in the southern Caribbean/South America, and one in Latin America.
In The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History, Bill Marshall has produced a truly original and very engaging book that will be of great interest to readers in French, Francophone, and Atlantic Studies. This study is unique, quirky, and stimulating.
Christopher L. Miller
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The French Atlantic
- 1 Passages of Nantes
- 2 Secrets of La Rochelle
- 3 &&&x2018;Even way up yonder among the fish&&&x2019; &&&x2013; Islands and Frontiers at Saint-pierre et Miquelon
- 4 Bridges and Walls in Quebec City
- 5 Common Routes to New Orleans
- 6 Speaking and Dancing in Cayenne
- 7 Montevideo&&&x2019;s Arrivals and Departures
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Contents
