India in the French Imagination

Marsh, Kate:
India in the French imagination : peripheral voices; 1754-1815 / by Kate Marsh. - London : Pickering & Chatto, 2009. - X, 211 S. - (Empires in perspective ; 8)
ISBN 978-1-85196-994-4 / 1-85196-994-2
£ 60,00 / US$ 99,00
DDC: 325.344054

Beschreibung
This book examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France, which effectively curtailed French expansionist policies in India, to the Second Treaty of Paris, which confirmed the territorial settlement of 1763 and France's subordinate position to Britain. Marsh explores how a European power, territorially peripheral in India, conceived of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain.
   For the French, the image of India functioned both as a trope of exoticism and as a site that was inescapably imbued with expansionist failure and the concomitant success of la perfide Albion. Marsh posits a triangular discursive relationship between Britain, France and India, challenging the grand narrative of the British imperial conquest and exploring the consequences for French culture of competing colonialisms on the subcontinent. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
1. The French Presence in India between 1754 and 1815: From the 'beaux jours du gouvernement de Dupleix' to Annihilation?
2. Constructing India as Other: Fiction, Travelogues and Ambassadors
3. Emasculating India: The Indienne, Feminization and Female Writers
4. Mythical India
5. Historical India: Narratives of the Past
6. The Philosophes, 'Anticolonialism' and the Rule of the British East India Company

Autorin
KATE MARSH, Lecturer in French, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool. Profile page.

Quellen: Pickering & Chatto; Amazon; WorldCat.