2006
DOI: 10.1353/jem.2006.0017
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Abstract: This essay develops a detailed reading of Jean-Christophe Rufin's Rouge Brésil, an historical novel recounting the failed sixteenth-century French colonial project in South America. This tale of religious war, of cultural difference, of voyage and attempted (but failed) colonization gives an ironic, critical account of French colonialism. On the blurry borderline between Western culture and the New World, a number of Rufin's characters create hybrid identities that reveal the complexity of initial encounters b… Show more

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“…It might be more useful to understand it as an ideologically meaningful (and over determined) act of violence. This violence is impelled by, enacts, and thus reciprocally confirms the imperatives of appropriation, possession, and domination that characterize the colonialist project in general, imperatives that are themselves discursively figured violence (Racevskis, 2006).…”
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“…It might be more useful to understand it as an ideologically meaningful (and over determined) act of violence. This violence is impelled by, enacts, and thus reciprocally confirms the imperatives of appropriation, possession, and domination that characterize the colonialist project in general, imperatives that are themselves discursively figured violence (Racevskis, 2006).…”
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“…Since cannibalism and barbarity are there in Africa in particular, the fear is there as well that encounters the colonizers when the westerners mission of aiding and reforming proved failure. The one European leads a first expedition, starts out as a humanist, a rationalist and as a leader of reformation to these poor ignored people on their poor land, turns "into a fanatical dictator" (Racevskis, 2006). This could be well remarked in A Passage to India where Ronny Heaslop, one of the members of European enterprise in India, pronounces his fanaticism loudly to his mother Mrs. Moor when he says to her, rather snubbing her: "We're not out here for the purpose of behaving pleasantly… India isn't a drawing room" (Forster, 1975).…”
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