Towards a Prehistory of the Koné Region, New Caledonia
Author: Patrick Vinton Kirch
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 168
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Author: Patrick Vinton Kirch
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Shutler
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christophe Sand
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raylene Ramsay
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0824860357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNights of Storytelling is the first book to present and contextualize the founding texts of New Caledonia, a country sui generis in the relatively little-known French Pacific. Extracts from literary, ethnographic, and historical works in English translation introduce the many voices of a diverse culture as it moves toward “independence” or the “common destiny” framed by the 1998 Noumea Agreements. These texts reflect the coexistence of two major cultures, indigenous and European, shaped by the energies and shadows of empire and significantly influenced by one another. From the founding stories of Kanak oral tradition to the contradictory reports by Cook and d’Entrecasteaux, from the accounts of the French colony’s difficult first destiny as a penal settlement to the construction of settler mythologies, the book investigates the nature of overlapping spaces created by cultural contact between Europe and the Pacific. The final section focuses on the literary effervescence of the contemporary period and its revisiting of colonial histories in the difficult movement toward a national identity. Historical romances describe the harshness of life for freed convicts, the impossibility of love between a liberated prisoner and a free settler. Sagas of late-nineteenth-century indentured laborers seeking a living on the nickel-rich main island speak similarly of physical struggle, sacrifice, and ultimately, of contribution to the country’s development and the right to a place in the new land. Kanak texts disseminate that community’s oral culture and largely silenced voice through the printed word. In a world still moving from colonial to postcolonial frames, the engagement of these works with vital contemporary questions of historical legacy, legitimacy, and cultural hybridity is intensely political. Aesthetics is a political ethics as the different communities of New Caledonia experiment with artistic and textual forms to write their distinctive place in the land. Nights of Storytelling is a collaborative work complemented by La nuit des contes, a subtitled DVD of images and text, which features key works read or spoken, generally in the original French. It provides visual and aural access for the book’s Anglophone readers to the specific cultural, linguistic, and geographic contexts of these historical and literary works.
Author: Isabelle Merle
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-10-19
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 3030990338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a long history of France’s infamous indigénat regime, from its origins in Algeria to its contested practices and legacies in France’s South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The term indigénat is synonymous throughout the francophone world with the rigours and injustices of the colonial era under French rule. The indigénat regime or 'Native Code' governed the lives of peoples classified as French 'native' subjects in colonies as diverse as Algeria, West Africa, Madagascar, Indochina and New Caledonia. In New Caledonia it was introduced by decree in 1887 and remained in force until Kanak — New Caledonia’s indigenous people — obtained citizenship in 1946. Among the colonial tools and legal mechanisms associated with France’s colonial empire it is the one that has had the greatest impact on the memory of the colonized. Focussing on New Caledonia, the last remaining part of overseas France to have experienced the full force of the indigénat, this book illustrates the way that certain measures were translated into colonial practices, and sheds light on the tensions involved in the making of France as both a nation and a colonial empire. The first book to provide a comprehensive history of the indigénat regime, explaining how it first came into being and survived up until 1946 despite its constant denunciation, this is an important contribution to French Imperial History and Pacific History.
Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 168
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Institut Géographique National
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Published: 1996-01-01
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthias Kowasch
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 3031491408
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