Un voyage au pays des popophages

This paper analyzes two works for young people with colonial content, published in Belgium in 1930, Tante Julia découvre le Congo (Ransy Roger, 1932), and Jeannot gosse d’Afrique (Jeanne Maquet-Tombu, 1935). Providing an internal vision of the Belgian Congo, both focus on the everyday but with contr...

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Main Author: Laurence Boudart
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Language:English
Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2014-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/1137
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description This paper analyzes two works for young people with colonial content, published in Belgium in 1930, Tante Julia découvre le Congo (Ransy Roger, 1932), and Jeannot gosse d’Afrique (Jeanne Maquet-Tombu, 1935). Providing an internal vision of the Belgian Congo, both focus on the everyday but with contrasting perspectives where image and representations of the Other and the Abroad say a lot about the collective definition of itself, namely that of Belgium as a colonial power.
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spelling doaj-art-4e943a0f47b54ffc826c2c9ba051e35d2024-12-09T13:42:24ZengAssociation Portugaise d'Etudes FrançaisesCarnets1646-76982014-05-01110.4000/carnets.1137Un voyage au pays des popophagesLaurence BoudartThis paper analyzes two works for young people with colonial content, published in Belgium in 1930, Tante Julia découvre le Congo (Ransy Roger, 1932), and Jeannot gosse d’Afrique (Jeanne Maquet-Tombu, 1935). Providing an internal vision of the Belgian Congo, both focus on the everyday but with contrasting perspectives where image and representations of the Other and the Abroad say a lot about the collective definition of itself, namely that of Belgium as a colonial power.https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/1137Belgian literaturecolonial literaturestudy of othernesschildren’s literature
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Un voyage au pays des popophages
Carnets
Belgian literature
colonial literature
study of otherness
children’s literature
title Un voyage au pays des popophages
title_full Un voyage au pays des popophages
title_fullStr Un voyage au pays des popophages
title_full_unstemmed Un voyage au pays des popophages
title_short Un voyage au pays des popophages
title_sort un voyage au pays des popophages
topic Belgian literature
colonial literature
study of otherness
children’s literature
url https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/1137
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