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"In this important new study, Kate Marsh takes a transnational approach to colonial and Francophone studies, analyzing three distinct literary texts over three centuries. She demonstrates convincingly that our understanding of empire must include the interactions of different imperial formations-specifically, the ways in which French colonialism compared itself to that of other European nations, notably Britain. Focusing on islands and colonial outposts rather than the great colonies of Africa and Asia, Marsh gives us a new portrait of France's colonial empire, one in which expansi

French fiction --- Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects

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The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of 'palimpsestic memory', which the author defines as the condensation of different spatio-temporal traces, to describe these interconnections and defines the poetics and the politics of this composite form. In doing so it is argued that a poetics dependent on tropes and techniques, such as metaphor, allegory and montage, establishes connections across space and time which obli

Thematology --- French literature --- Film --- anno 1940-1949 --- French fiction --- Colonies in literature. --- Colonies in motion pictures. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. --- Roman français --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Colonies au cinéma --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 dans la littérature --- Holocauste, 1939-1945, au cinéma --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Roman français --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Colonies au cinéma --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 dans la littérature --- Holocauste, 1939-1945, au cinéma --- Motion pictures --- French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- French fiction - French-speaking countries - History and criticism --- Colonies in literature --- Colonies in motion pictures --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures