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Synopsis
Ross (literature, U. of California, Santa Cruz) explores how the modern French resistance to influence from the US and former French colonies is framed in metaphors of purity and defilement to evoke the image of a pristine culture beset by foreign contamination. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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'Fast Cars, Clean Bodies' examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s, when France shifted from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one.
About the Author
Kristin Ross is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune.
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- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0262181614
- ISBN 13 9780262181617
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages300
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