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This illuminating study of European women's narratives in colonial Algeria and Kenya argues that nostalgia was not a post-colonial phenomenon but was embedded in the colonial period. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the distinction between imperial nostalgia, associated with the loss of power that results from the loss of empire, and colonial nostalgia, associated with loss of socio-cultural standing-in other words, loss of a certain way of life. This distinction helps to make women's discursive role an important factor in the creation of colonial nostalgia, due to their significant contribution to the establishment of a European colonial environment.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia
• Subtitle: European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present
• Author: Patricia M.E. Lorcin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 329
• EAN: 9780230338654
• ISBN: 9780230338654
• ID: 06545787
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 626 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 164 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2011

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