French decadence in a global context : colonialism and exoticism /

Decadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with the expansion of France's modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery signifier, Decadence figures alternately as pro-colonial, anticolonial and apolitical. This edit...

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Other Authors: Hartley, Julia Caterina (Editor), Suwanwattana, Wanrug (Editor), Yee, Jennifer (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.
Series:Francophone postcolonial studies ; v.13.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2r65hfz