The Shaping Of French National Identity

Author : Matthew D'Auria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316423189
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Shaping of French National Identity written by Matthew D'Auria and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In April 1684, the traveller, diplomat, and essayist, François Bernier (1625-1688), anonymously published in the Journal des sçavans his 'Nouvelle division de la terre, par les différentes espèces ou races d'hommes qui l'habitent'. He there made the case that although geographers had always divided the earth into countries and regions, thanks to his travels he now believed that another kind of mapping was possible:"--

Author : Matthew D'Auria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009028359
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Shaping of French National Identity written by Matthew D'Auria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the nation's origins were being questioned and discussed and when they acquired the meaning later enshrined in the official rhetoric of the Third Republic. He examines how French writers and scholars reshaped the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities. Engaging with the myth of 'our ancestors the Gauls' and its ideological triumph over the competing myth of 'our ancestors the Franks', this study explores the ways in which the struggle developed, and the values that the two discourses enshrined, the collective actors they portrayed, and the memories they evoked. D'Auria draws attention to the continuity between ethnic discourses and national narratives and to the competition between various groups in their claims to represent the nation and to define their past as the 'true' history of France.

Author : Gérard Noiriel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816624201
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The French Melting Pot written by Gérard Noiriel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David C. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783111880938
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The French Language and National Identity written by David C. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alain Dieckhoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351917005
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Modern Roots written by Alain Dieckhoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the study of national identity as a collective phenomenon is a growing concern among the social and political sciences. This book addresses the scholarly interest in examining the origins of ideologies and social practices that give historical meaning, cohesion and uniqueness to modern national communities. It focuses on the various routes taken towards the construction of cultural authenticity as an inspirational purpose of nation-building and reveals the diversity of the themes, practices and symbols used to encourage self-identification and communality. Among the techniques explored are the dramatization of suffering and tragedy, the exaltation of heroes and deeds, the evocation of landscape, nature and the arts and the delimitation of collective values to be pursued during reconstruction in post-war periods.

Author : Dr Michele Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134842201
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fashioning Masculinity written by Dr Michele Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced anxiety on the part of the English over the effect of French practices on English masculinity and the virtue of English women. By the end of the century, representing the French as an effeminate other was integral to the forging of English, masculine national identity. Michele Cohen examines the derogation of women and the French which accompanied the emergent 'masculine' English identity. While taciturnity became emblematic of the English gentleman's depth of mind and masculinity, sprightly conversation was seen as representing the shallow and inferior intellect of English women and the French of both sexes. Michele Cohen also demonstrates how visible evidence of girls' verbal and language learning skills served only to construe the female mind as inferior. She argues that this perception still has currency today.

Author : Lotte Jensen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048530644
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The roots of nationalism written by Lotte Jensen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.

Author : Ramona Mielusel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030301583
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America written by Ramona Mielusel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decades of the new millennium have been marked by major political changes. Although The West has wished to revisit internal and international politics concerning migration policies, refugee status, integration, secularism, and the dismantling of communitarianism, events like the Syrian refugee crisis, the terrorist attacks in France in 2015-2016, and the economic crisis of 2008 have resurrected concepts such as national identity, integration, citizenship and re-shaping state policies in many developed countries. In France and Canada, more recent public elections have brought complex democratic political figures like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau to the public eye. Both leaders were elected based on their promising political agendas that aimed at bringing their countries into the new millennium; Trudeau promotes multiculturalism, while Macron touts the diverse nation and the inclusion of diverse ethnic communities to the national model. This edited collection aims to establish a dialogue between these two countries and across disciplines in search of such discursive illustrations and opposing discourses. Analyzing the cultural and political tensions between minority groups and the state in light of political events that question ideas of citizenship and belonging to a multicultural nation, the chapters in this volume serve as a testimonial to the multiple views on the political and public perception of multicultural practices and their national and international applicability to our current geopolitical context.

Author : Timothy Baycroft
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843838395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Culture, Identity and Nationalism written by Timothy Baycroft and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the evolution of national and cultural identity in French Flanders over a period of 200 years. This study examines the evolution of national and regional, cultural and political identities in that northern region of France which borders Belgium, over the two centuries which followed the French Revolution. During that time the region was transformed by the development of the industrial economy, population shifts, war and occupation, and numerous changes of political regime. Through an analysis of a wide range of issues, including language, regional and national political movements, educational policy, attitudes towards immigrants and the border, the press, trade unions, and the church - as well as the attitude of the French State - the author questions traditional interpretations of the process of national assimilation in France. At the same time he illustrates how the Franco-Belgian border, originally an arbitrary line through a culturally homogeneous region, became not only a significant marker forthe identity of the French Flemish, but a real cultural division. TIMOTHY BAYCROFT is lecturer in French history, University of Sheffield.

Author : Tyler Edward Stovall
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106471
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book French Civilization and Its Discontents written by Tyler Edward Stovall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this groundbreaking volume demonstrate how literature, history, and other aspects of what is considered French civilization have been shaped by global processes of creolization and differentiation. This book ably demonstrates the necessity of studying France and the Francophone world together, and of recognizing not only the presence of France in the Francophone world but also the central place occupied by the Francophone world in world literature and history.