TY - GEN AB - This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its. AU - Barclay, Fiona, CN - ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete CN - PQ673 CY - Lanham, Md. : DA - c2011. ID - 1398489 KW - French fiction KW - French fiction KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - Imperialism KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Literature and history KW - Postcolonialism KW - Postcolonialism LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=730738 N2 - This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its. PB - Lexington Books, PP - Lanham, Md. : PY - c2011. SN - 9780739145050 SN - 0739145053 T1 - Writing postcolonial Francehaunting, literature, and the Maghreb / TI - Writing postcolonial Francehaunting, literature, and the Maghreb / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=730738 ER -