The Colonial Unconscious

Race and Culture in Interwar France

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Elizabeth Ezra

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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, the short stories of Paul Morand, and more subtly in the avant-garde writings of Rene Crevel and Raymond Roussel. In this volume, Elizabeth Ezra interprets an 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 USA. Examining both the uses and limits of psychoanalytic theories of empire, she proposes a reading of French colonialism which, whilst 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 similarities between the rhetoric of colonial France and accounts of the French victory in the 1998 World Cup.

Author Biography:

Elizabeth Ezra teaches in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Stirling. She is the author of Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur, editor of European Cinema, and coeditor of France in Focus: Film and National Identity and Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader.

Release date Australia

May 2nd, 2000

Author

Elizabeth Ezra

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

192

Dimensions

152x229x21

ISBN-13

9780801437267

Product ID

12522673

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