| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic |
| Author: |
FrithNicola., |
| Place of Publication: |
Lanham |
| Published: |
Lexington Books; |
| Year of Publication: |
2014. |
| Description: |
228 p. |
| Series: |
After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
| Subject: |
Colonialism in literature. - |
| Subject: |
French prose literature - History and criticism. - 19th century - |
| Subject: |
Imperialism - Social aspects - France. - |
| Subject: |
India - History - Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858. - |
| Online resource: |
http://TAEBDC.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1684211 |
| Notes: |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Summary: |
The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Drawing from texts produced during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, Nicola Frith foregrounds the extent to which British India acted as a counter-narrative in the construction of France's rival colonial discourse and its emerging "civilizing mission" alongside France's persistent desire to compensate for its "loss" of India at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. |
| ISBN: |
9780739180006 |
| ISBN: |
9780739180013e-book |
| Content Note: |
THE FRENCH COLONIAL IMAGINATION; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Beyond the Binary―Triangulating Colonial Discourse; 2 A War of Words: The Politics of Nomenclature; 3 Villains and Heroes: Ventriloquizing the "Revolutionary"; 4 Massacring the Myth: Telling Tales of Revenge; 5 Compensating for l'Inde perdue: France's "Civilizing Mission"; Conclusion: The French Colonial Imagination; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |