TY - BOOK ID - 78341731 TI - Narratives of the French empire PY - 2013 SN - 0739176579 9780739176573 1306202922 9781306202923 9780739176566 0739176560 1498556345 PB - Lanham DB - UniCat KW - French fiction KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Imperialism KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - History and criticism. KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78341731 AB -
"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 ER -