The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars - Brossura

Wilder, Gary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226897680 ISBN 13: 9780226897684

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2005

Riassunto

France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites.

Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.

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L'autore:

Gary Wilder is associate professor of history at Pomona College.

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Book by Wilder Gary

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0226897680
• ISBN 13: 9780226897684
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416