freedom, violence, and identity
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Nya, Nathalie
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- kolonialisme, schrijvers, literatuur, etniciteit, intersectionaliteit, Frankrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Nya interprets the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir through the perspective of French colonial history. She considers Beauvoir through this lens to critique her position as a colonizer woman or colon and as a means of situating her in one of France’s most fraught historical moments. She emphasizes the weight of French colonialism on Beauvoir’s identity as a white French woman, as well as the subjective and interpersonal dialectic of colonialism.The book presents a gendered and female perspective of French colonialism between 1946 and 1962, a time when French intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Franz Fanon rallied against the political system, and which ultimately brought about an end to French colonialism. It adheres to a reading of Beauvoir as foremost an intellectual woman, one who reflected upon the legacy of French colonialism as an author and whose nation-bound status as a colonizer played a role in the alliance she created with Gisele Halimi and Djamila Boupacha.