Author: Étienne-Frédéric Bouisson
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Languages : fr
Pages : 22

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Author: Alexandre Lecoeur
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Languages : fr
Pages : 14

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Author: V. Hélénon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349289912
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa before World War II.

Author: Ferdinand Castets
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Languages : fr
Pages : 11

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Pages : 4

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Author: Désiré Nisard
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Pages : 8

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Author: Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299219542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Amadou Hampaté Bâ
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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A novel on the evils of white colonialism in Africa. Set in French-ruled Mali, the hero is a young teacher who plays the white man's idea of a good Black in order to advance his career.

Author: Sandy Petrey
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172441X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Sandy Petrey here looks at the emergence of nineteenth-century French realism in the light of the concept of speech acts as defined by J. L. Austin and as exemplified by the history of the French Revolution. Through analysis of the techniques of representation in works by Balzac, Stendhal, and Zola, Petrey suggests that the expression of a truth depends on the same collective forces necessary to change a regime. According to Petrey, political legitimacy in the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration was established by means of a series of demonstrations that what words say cannot be interpreted without reference to the community to which they speak. Petrey first discusses the creation of France's National Assembly in 1789 as a foundational example of how speech acts can bring about historical transformation. He then challenges the most powerful twentieth-century assault on realist aesthetics, Roland Barthes's S/Z, and also considers the views of such contemporary critics as Jacques Derrida, Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Fish. During the Revolution, Petrey says, statements of truth were not descriptions of what was, but rather exhortations to produce what was not. Nineteenth-century French fiction represents in literary form a similar collectively authorized linguistic performance; the "real" in realism comes from representing facts not as they are in themselves but as they are produced and rejected in society. In the course of illuminating readings of three central realist works—Balzac's Pere Goriot, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, and Zola's Germinal—Petrey takes the position that the dilemmas of representation, far from being one of realism's blind spots, figure among its major narrative subjects.

Author: Daniel Roche
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520060318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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In his collective portrait of the common people, Roche offers a rich and fascinating description of their lives—their housing, food, dress, financial dealings, literature, domestic life, and leisure time. Roche’s highly readable style and use of contemporary quotations enliven the reader’s view of eighteenth-century Paris and Parisians.