Overview
- Contains an array of archival material
- Synthesizes literary, cultural, mobility studies, and postcolonial research
- Challenges Eurocentric views of the history of the automobile and mythologies of colonialism
Part of the book series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture (SMLC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
How are the pleasures and thrills of the automobile linked to France’s history of conquest, colonialism, and exploitation in Southeast Asia? Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina addresses the contradictions of the “progress” of French colonialism and their consequences through the lens of the automobile. Stéphanie Ponsavady examines the development of transportation systems in French Indochina at the turn of the twentieth century, analyzing archival material and French and Vietnamese literature to critically assess French colonialism.
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Stéphanie Ponsavady is Assistant Professor of French Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina
Book Subtitle: A Colonial Roadshow
Authors: Stéphanie Ponsavady
Series Title: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94559-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94558-3Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06875-2Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94559-0Published: 21 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-4838
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, Postcolonial/World Literature, European Literature