Colonizer or Colonized
Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France''s literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France''s conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had coloni...
Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France''s literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France''s conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had coloni...
