Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia

1. Introduction
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Part I. 1900–1930. Colonial Women and Their Imagined Selves

2. Paradoxical Lives: Women and Their Colonial Worlds
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3. Nostalgia Personified: Isabelle Eberhardt and Karen Blixen
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Part II. 1920–1940. Political Realities and Fictional Representations

4. Reality Expressed; Reality Imagined: Algeria and Kenya in the Twenties
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5. Writing and Living the Exotic
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6. Women’s Fictions of Colonial Realism
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Part III. Imperial Decline and the Reformulation of Nostalgia

7. Nationalist Anger; Colonial Illusions: Women’s Responses to Decolonization
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8. Happy Families, Pieds-Noirs, Red Strangers, and “a Vanishing Africa”: Nostalgia Comes Full Circle
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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: History, African History, Social History, African Literature, African Languages, European History, Modern History