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While there has been relatively little serious analysis of colonial postcards, Malek Alloula's influential bookLe Harem colonial put forward a reading of such postcards from the early 1900s as perpetuating a harem fantasy through which French male colonists viewed North Africa. This article analyses a selection of postcards of women from France's Indochinese colonies at the same period, and suggests that Alloula's thesis does not fit them in a comparable way. The Indochinese postcard...
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- 10.1177/0957155804040405
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- French Cultural Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
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- 5-19
- Publication date:
- 2004-02-05
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1740-2352
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0957-1558
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uuid:8e261339-ae15-4330-9402-2b3658802ea6
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- English
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- 2004
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in French Cultural Studies, 15(1), February 2004 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2008 SAGE Publications. N.B. Dr Yee is now based at the the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Undergraduate Studies, University of Oxford.
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Recycling the 'Colonial Harem'? Women in postcards from French Indochina
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