The French Imperial Nation-State Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars |
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| Author:
| Wilder, Gary |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-89772-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2005 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $117.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionFrance 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.