| The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History Contributor(s): Marshall, Bill (Author) |
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ISBN: 1846310504 ISBN-13: 9781846310508 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: "The French Atlantic" is a compelling and timely contribution to ongoing debates about nationhood, culture, and "Frenchness" that have come to define France and its diaspora in light of the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war and other mass cultural events. With interdisciplinary navigation of fields nearly as diverse as the locations he explores, Bill Marshall considers the cultural history of seven different French Atlantic spaces--from Quebec to the southern Caribbean to North Atlantic territory and back to metropolitan France--in this groundbreaking study of the Atlantic world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 944 |
| Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.45 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Recent history, notably the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war in 2003 and continued cultural nationalism on the part of French elites faced with the English language and American mass culture, has tended to put forth notions of 'France' and 'America' as antithetical. This book seeks to break these paradigms, and to speak of entwined cultures and histories, promoting diasporic notions of Frenchness. The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History, is an attempt to intervene in these debates and paradigms in the French and American public spheres, and in university disciplines, particularly in French studies, but also has relevance for American studies, comparative literature, film and cultural studies, history, Iberian and Latin-American Studies, and postcolonial studies. After a theoretical introduction, it explores the cultural history of seven different French Atlantic spaces, all the time attentive to the material determinants of their existence in the Atlantic world. Two are in metropolitan France, one is a French North Atlantic territory, one is in Quebec, one in the United States/northern Caribbean, one in the southern Caribbean/South America, and one in Latin America. |