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• catalog abstract ""According to the poet Victor Hugo, the year 1870/71 was France's annee terrible. The country suffered a humiliating defeat by the Prussian military, and Parisians endured a cruel siege. In the wake of the siege, Paris exploded and revolutionaries proclaimed the birth of the Paris Commune." "The conservative government of the young Third Republic portrayed the Communards as savage destroyers of civilization. The Communards were depicted as plagued by original sin, the evil nature of fallen man, and atavistic degeneration. These alleged traits aligned them with tribal peoples who were commonly thought to be severed from justice, liberty, and divine love. The punishment of the Communards was an odd one; some 4,500 revolutionaries were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia with the hope that the inherent truths of nature would instill in their minds a natural morality." "However, the French government had not sufficiently considered the presence of the indigenous people of these "wilderness islands," the Melanesian Kanak. If the Communards were to be moralized by New Caledonia, how was it that the Kanak - who had lived for thousands of years on this land - did not also profit from this moralizing influence? This was just the first paradox provoked by the deportation of Parisian "political savages" to the land of these "natural savages." The surprising parallels and interactions between the Melanesians and the Parisians in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization form the substance of this book. It explores such themes as the history of the self, moralization as a means to civilization, nostalgia as a fatal illness, and colonial humanitarianism and gendered hybridity." "The French attempt to impose a universal moral standard and a particular form of "civilized self" on Communards and Kanak provoked fearsome battles, acerbic rhetorical inversions and fictional re-visionings through which oppositional identities and non-civilized "selves" took on form and solidity. This book places moral imperialism within the context of French republicanism and points to the beginnings of an era (the 1910s) when the recognition, rather than the domination, of the other attained an honored place in French theory."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11967959.
• catalog coverage "France Colonies New Caledonia History 19th century.".
• catalog coverage "France Relations New Caledonia.".
• catalog coverage "New Caledonia Relations France.".
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""According to the poet Victor Hugo, the year 1870/71 was France's annee terrible. The country suffered a humiliating defeat by the Prussian military, and Parisians endured a cruel siege. In the wake of the siege, Paris exploded and revolutionaries proclaimed the birth of the Paris Commune." "The conservative government of the young Third Republic portrayed the Communards as savage destroyers of civilization. The Communards were depicted as plagued by original sin, the evil nature of fallen man, and atavistic degeneration. These alleged traits aligned them with tribal peoples who were commonly thought to be severed from justice, liberty, and divine love. ".
• catalog description "Civilization: Teleology for Modern France -- Becoming savage? The first step toward civilization and the practices of intransigence in New Caledonia -- Cleansing Paris of Le Peuple -- The ideal subject for the Third Republic -- Variations on a French western -- Improper subjectivity: Recuperating the category of affect in French colonial policy -- Fatal nostalgia -- Hybridity or humanitarianism? -- The rigors of reconciliation: Amnesty, torture, and political life -- Conclusion- fin-de-siecle republicanism: Le Peuple as Holy Ghost.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-366) and index.".
• catalog description "It explores such themes as the history of the self, moralization as a means to civilization, nostalgia as a fatal illness, and colonial humanitarianism and gendered hybridity." "The French attempt to impose a universal moral standard and a particular form of "civilized self" on Communards and Kanak provoked fearsome battles, acerbic rhetorical inversions and fictional re-visionings through which oppositional identities and non-civilized "selves" took on form and solidity. This book places moral imperialism within the context of French republicanism and points to the beginnings of an era (the 1910s) when the recognition, rather than the domination, of the other attained an honored place in French theory."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "The punishment of the Communards was an odd one; some 4,500 revolutionaries were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia with the hope that the inherent truths of nature would instill in their minds a natural morality." "However, the French government had not sufficiently considered the presence of the indigenous people of these "wilderness islands," the Melanesian Kanak. If the Communards were to be moralized by New Caledonia, how was it that the Kanak - who had lived for thousands of years on this land - did not also profit from this moralizing influence? This was just the first paradox provoked by the deportation of Parisian "political savages" to the land of these "natural savages." The surprising parallels and interactions between the Melanesians and the Parisians in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization form the substance of this book. ".
• catalog extent "380 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0804738785 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "France Colonies New Caledonia History 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "France Relations New Caledonia.".
• catalog spatial "New Caledonia Relations France.".
• catalog spatial "New Caledonia".
• catalog subject "Civilization Philosophy.".
• catalog subject "DC59.8.N5 B85 2000".
• catalog subject "Penal colonies New Caledonia History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Civilization: Teleology for Modern France -- Becoming savage? The first step toward civilization and the practices of intransigence in New Caledonia -- Cleansing Paris of Le Peuple -- The ideal subject for the Third Republic -- Variations on a French western -- Improper subjectivity: Recuperating the category of affect in French colonial policy -- Fatal nostalgia -- Hybridity or humanitarianism? -- The rigors of reconciliation: Amnesty, torture, and political life -- Conclusion- fin-de-siecle republicanism: Le Peuple as Holy Ghost.".
• catalog title "Exile to paradise : savagery and civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900 / Alice Bullard.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".