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The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France
Elizabeth Ezra
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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJG; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more subtly in the avant-garde writings of Rene Crevel and Raymond Roussel. In her lively book, Elizabeth Ezra interprets a fascinating array of cultural products to uncover what she terms the colonial unconscious of the Jazz Age-the simultaneous attraction and repulsion of exoticism and the double bind of a colonial discourse that foreclosed the possibility of the very assimilation it invited.Ezra ... Read more
France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more subtly in the avant-garde writings of Rene Crevel and Raymond Roussel. In her lively book, Elizabeth Ezra interprets a fascinating array of cultural products to uncover what she terms the colonial unconscious of the Jazz Age-the simultaneous attraction and repulsion of exoticism and the double bind of a colonial discourse that foreclosed the possibility of the very assimilation it invited.Ezra ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486470
SKU
V9780801486470
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About Elizabeth Ezra
Elizabeth Ezra teaches in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Stirling. She is the author of Georges Melies: The Birth of the Auteur, editor of European Cinema, and coeditor of France in Focus: Film and National Identity and Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader.
Reviews for The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France
The Colonial Unconscious is a significant contribution to the growing field of French Cultural Studies. Ezra's close readings... bring much that is new and original to our understanding of interwar France. Furthermore, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of contemporary France, for it offers insight into the working of colonial ideology.
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