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From Motherhood to Citizenhood: Re-Writing Female Travelers in French Republican Colonialism (1860-2015)
In 1898, Marie Dronsart published Les Grandes Voyageuses, the first French anthology on European female travelers. In its preface, she linked travel writing with the colonial work underway in all parts of the world while underscoring the role female travelers should play in the colonial project.
Since Dronsart, however, historians and literary critics have shied away from studying the role progressively given to female travelers during the French empire.
Meet Anne-Caroline Sieffert of Brown University
She'll discuss the progressive role assigned to French female travelers at the height of the empire’s colonial expansion in the 1860s.
Discussion
What is that role of women travelers? How does it help defining—or redefining—citizenhood in France?
Where and When
- Monday, October 26th, 2015
- 1-2:15 PM
- Schmitt Hall, rm. 104