Prise de possession. Storytelling, Culture populaire et colonialisme
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 25-04/605413
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Königshausen und Neumann
- ISBN
- 9783826058257
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is based on Obergöker's French habilitation à diriger des recherches (accreditation to supervise research), an extensive post-doctoral project allowing for application for full professorship, conducted between 2008 and 2013 and submitted in 2013 at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand. This version of the project investigates a broad range of material, requiring several research trips to select from the wealth of material in the French National Library and the Colonial Archives in Aix-en-Provence. The book takes a transdisciplinary approach and endeavours to look at colonial culture from a diversity of viewpoints: historical, literary and semiological.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The book investigates the relationships between popular culture and colonialism. It argues that, apart from presenting the grandeur of the colonial project, popular culture aimed at closing the symbolic gap between mainland France and the colonies as mainland France was relatively little affected by colonialism. The book uses theories of “taking possession” since Columbus as well as theories of storytelling and explores the triangular relationship between colonialism, storytelling and popular culture by focussing on the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, colonial chansons from the 1920s and 30, notably those performed by Josephine Baker.