The Colonial Unconscious
Subtitle: Race and Culture in Interwar France
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801486470
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; General; Europe - France; Political Science; Literary Criticism; Sociology; French; Politics/International Relations; France; Indigenous peoples; Anthropology - Cultural; Colonies; European - French; 1914-1940; Politics and government; Race relations
Description: France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial powers, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the "expositions coloniales", in film and in literature. This work interprets a range of cultural products to uncover the "colonial unconscious" of the age.