Name: The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France
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Author: Elizabeth Ezra
ISBN: 9780801486470

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The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Author

Elizabeth Ezra

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0801486475

ISBN13

9780801486470

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France "

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 situates the apotheosis of French colonialism in relation to both the internal tensions of the colonial project and the competing imperialisms of Great Britain and the United States. Examining both the uses and the limits of psychoanalytic theories of empire, she proposes a reading of French colonialism which, while historically specific, also contributes to our understanding of contemporary culture. The enduring legacy of empire is felt to this day, as Ezra demonstrates in a provocative epilogue on the remarkable similarities between the rhetoric of colonial France and accounts of the French victory in the 1998 World Cup.

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