Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution de Pascal Blanchard

Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

Pascal Blanchard

Sandrine Lemaire

Nicolas Bancel

Dominic Thomas

This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.

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Introduction: The Creation of a Colonial Culture in France, from the Colonial Era to the "Memory Wars" / Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic ThomasPart I. The Creation of a Colonial CultureForeword: French Colonization: an Inaudible History Marc Ferro1. Anti-Slavery, Abolitionism, and Abolition in France from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the 1840s Marcel Dorigny2. Milestones in Colonial Culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870) Sandrine Lemaire, Pascal Blanchard, and Nicolas Bancel3. Exhibitions, Expositions, Media Coverage, and the Colonies (1870-1914) Sandrine Lemaire and Pascal Blanchard4. Science, Scientists, and the Colonies (1870-1914) Gilles Boëtsch5. Literature, Song, and the Colonies (1900-1920) Alain Ruscio6. Entertainment, Theater, and the Colonies (1870-1914) Sylvie Chalaye7. School, Pedagogy, and Colonies (1870-1914) Gilles Manceron8. Dying: the Call of the Empire (1913-1918) Éric DerooPart II. Conquering Public OpinionForeword: Historys Mark (1931-1961) Didier Daeninckx9. Dreaming: the Fatal Attraction of Colonial Cinema (1920-1950) Olivier Barlet and Pascal Blanchard10. Spreading the Word: the Agence Générale des Colonies (1920-1931) Sandrine Lemaire11. To Civilize: the Invention of the Native (1918-1940) Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard12. Selling the Colonial Economic Myth (1900-1940) Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch13. The Athletic Exception: Black Champions and Colonial Culture (1900-1939) Timothée Jobert, Stanislas Frenkiel, and Nicolas Bancel14. The Colonial Bath: Sources of Popular Colonial Culture (1918-1931) Nicolas Bancel15. The Colonial Exposition (1931) Steve Ungar16. National Unity: the Right and Left "Meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931) Pascal BlanchardPart III. The Apogee of ImperialismForeword: Images of an Empires Demise Benjamin Stora17. Colonizing, Educating, Guiding: A Republican Duty Françoise Vergès18. Promotion: Creating the Colonial (1930-1940) Sandrine Lemaire19. Influence: Cultural and Ideological Agendas (1920-1940) David Murphy, Elizabeth Ezra, and Charles Forsdick20. Education: Becoming "Homo Imperialis" (1910-1940) Nicolas Bancel and Daniel Denis21. Manipulation: Conquering Taste (1931-1939) Sandrine Lemaire22. Control: Paris, a Colonial Capital (1931-1939) Pascal Blanchard and Éric Deroo23. Imperial Revolution: Vichys Colonial Myth (1940-1944) Pascal Blanchard and Ruth Ginio24. Colonial Economy: Between Propaganda Myths and Economic Reality (1940-1955) Sandrine Lemaire, Catherine Hodeir, and Pascal Blanchard25. French Unity: The Dream of a United France (1946-1960) Jacques FrémeauxPart IV. Toward the PostcolonyForeword: Moussa the Africans Blues Abdourahman A. Waberi26. Decolonizing France: the "Indochinese Syndrome" (1946-1954) Daniel Hémery27. Immigration: the Emergence of an African Elite in the Metropole (1946-1961) Philippe Dewitte28. Immigration: North Africans Settle in the Metropole (1946-1961) Pascal Blanchard, Éric Deroo, Driss El Yazami, Pierre Fournié, and Gilles Manceron29. Crime: Colonial Violence in the Metropole (1954-1961) Jean-Luc Einaudi30. Modernism, Colonialism, and Cultural Hybridity Herman Lebovics31. The Meanders of Colonial Memory Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard32. The Impossible Revision of Frances History (1968-2006) Suzanne Citron33. National History and Colonial History: Parallel Histories (1961-2006) Sandrine Lemaire34. The Illusion of Decolonization (1956-2006) Jean-Pierre Dozon35. The Impossible Colonial Museum Robert AldrichPart V. The Time of InheritanceForeword: The Age of Contempt, or the Legitimization of Frances Civilizing Mission Bruno Etienne36. Trouble in the Republic: Disturbing Memories, Forgotten Territories Françoise Vergès37. Competition between Victims Esther Benbassa38. The Army and the Construction of Immigration as a Threat (1961-2006) Mathieu Rigouste39. Postcolonial Culture in the Army and the Memory of Overseas Combatants (1961-2006) Christian Benoît, Antoine Champeaux, and Éric Deroo40. Republican Integration: Reflections on a Postcolonial Issue (1961-2006) Vincent Geisser41. Colonial Influences and Tropes in the Field of Literature Jean-Marc Moura42. From Colonial History to the Banlieues (1961-2006) Dominique Vidal43. Can We Speak of A Postcolonial Racism? (1961-2006) Saïd Bouamama and Pierre Tévanian44. From Colonial Stereotypes to the Postcolonial Gaze: the Need for an Evolution of the Imaginary Dominique Wolton45. Post Colonial Cinema, Song, and Literature: Continuity or Change? (1961-2006) Delphine Robic-Diaz and Alain Ruscio46. Ethnic Tourism: Symbolic Reconquest? (1961-2006) Nicolas Bancel47. Francophonie and Universality: the Evolution of Two Entangled Ideas (1961-2006) Gabrielle ParkerBibliographyIndexContributors