French Imperial Nation-State Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars

Name: French Imperial Nation-State Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars
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ISBN: 9780226897684

ISBN-10: 0226897680

ISBN-13: 9780226897684

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gary Wilder

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France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate." The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics--colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Imperial Nation-State



Introduction: Working through the Imperial Nation-State



Framing Greater France: A Real Abstraction



Colonial Humanism



Toward a New Colonial Rationality: Welfare, Science, Administration



A Doubled and Contradictory Form of Government



Temporality, Nationality, Citizenship



African Humanism



Negritude I: Practicing Citizenship in Imperial Paris



Negritude II Cultural Nationalism



Negritude III Critique of (Colonial) Reason Conclusion: Legacies of the Imperial Nation-State


Notes


Bibliography


Index