Wilder, Gary.

The French imperial nation-state : negritude & colonial humanism between the two world wars / Gary Wilder. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. - xi, 404 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-386) and index.

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 from 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. Pt. 1. 1. 2. Pt. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 3. 6. 7. 8.

0226897729 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226897680 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2005008094

GBA566791 bnb

013269402 Uk


Nationalism--History--Africa, West--20th century.
Nationalism--History--Caribbean Area--20th century.
Africans--France.
Blacks--Race identity--History--Africa, West--20th century.
Blacks--Race identity--History--Caribbean Area--20th century.
Blacks--France.


France--Colonies--Africa, West--20th century.
France--Colonies--Caribbean Area--20th century.
France--Ethnic relations.

JV1818 / .W54 2005

323.1/09171/24409042