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An Analytical Review of the Colonial/Post-colonial Historiography in France

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2008, (19), pp.249~278
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Seo-Kyoung Roe 1

1서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

It was often noted and criticized that the historical works on colonialism in France has not been much evolved contrary to the postcolonial current. According to the critics, it is not logical because France was incontestabl great empire. In recent years, it seems that an unprecedented historiography is going to be established with consciousness of those contradictions. That phenomenon makes us to present and analyse some historians like Gilles Manceron, Claude Liauzu, or Françoise Vergès. We should consider also Denis Lefeuvre, Pierre-André Taguieff from another camp for a balance. What are they speaking and reflecting on? Like Marianne et les colonies de Gilles Manceron, they want to prove that French Republic has been constantly a colonial republic. Another argument proposed by Claude Liauzu and the others is that through the colonial domination not only the colonialism but also a certain French racism has been consolidated. However, they consider that neither the “repentant” attitude nor the totalitarian way of thought be helpful for the postcolonial recognition. To them, the French colonial history was criminal.

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