Overview

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

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‘As an interdisciplinary series the collection features literary commentary, art inspired by colonial connections, and historical examples of repression; it encompasses a variety of scholarly fields. By illustrating the impact of colonial thought through both literary and socio-historical examples, Colonial Continuities is a striking way of honoring the late Kate Marsh.’ Hope Hecht, The French Review

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Sarah Arens is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in French at the University of Liverpool. Nicola Frith is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Jonathan Lewis is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at Bangor University. Rebekah Vince is a Lecturer in French at Queen Mary University of London.

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