Historicizing colonial nostalgia
Subtitle: European women's narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-present
By: Patricia M.E. Lorcin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230338654
Subjects: Women colonists; African literature; Women authors; Nostalgia in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1900-1930. Women and their colonial worlds; title: Nostalgia personified: Isabelle Eberhardt and Karen Blixen -- -- 1920-1940. Political realities and fictional representations; title: Reality expressed; reality imagined: colonial women in twenties Algeria and Kenya --; title: Writing and living the exotic [the twenties] --; title: Women's fictions of colonial realism [the thirties] -- -- Imperial decline and the reformulation of nostalgia; title: Nationalist anger; colonial illusions: women's responses to decolonization --; title: Happy families, red strangers and "a vanishing Africa": nostalgia comes full circle.