Jennifer G Yee

France And "Indochina": Cultural Representations

France And "Indochina": Cultural Representations

Visions/Revisions: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Culture

Cliches De La Femme Exotique: Un Regard Sur La Litterature Coloniale Francaise Entre 1871 Et 1914

Clichés de la femme exotique : un regard sur la littérature coloniale française entre 1871-1914

Pourquoi la femme exotique ? Dans la littérature coloniale elle occupe une place de premier rang. Symbole du pays étranger à conquérir ou à assujettir, elle est également - en tant que partenaire sexuelle - le moyen par lequel le personnage du colon approche cet Autre qu'est l'indigène. Les personna...

Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies)

In the course of the nineteenth century France built up a colonial empire second only to Britain’s. The literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial ‘Other’ is frequently understood in terms of Edward Said’s description of Orientalism as both a Western projection and a ‘will to govern’ ove...

Visions/Revisions: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Culture (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)

Selected from papers given at the first annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes, the nineteen essays in this volume contribute diversely towards a revision and a reconceptualisation of nineteenth-century France. Many adopt interdisciplinary methodologies attentive to the interplay betwe...

France and Indochina: Cultural Representations (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of 'Indochina' as they are conveyed through a variety of media including cinema, literature, art, and historical or anthropological writings. The volume is long awaited, as France's memory of...

La Tribu indienne; ou, Edouard et Stellina.(Book review): An article from: The Modern Language Review

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The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel

Nineteenth-century French realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon--Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant--The Colonial Comedy reveals that the colonies play a role ...

Chow Down and Chill Out

Jennifer Yee

Jennifer Yee is an American chef, specializing in pastry. Born and raised in San Francisco, she has worked in several pastry kitchens in many of Manhattan's...