Child’s Play? Colonial commodities, ephemera, and the construction of the greater French family
This article examines ephemera produced for French children in the interwar and early World War II period. Through a study of four different pieces related to chocolate, the article explores how imperially-themed objects like games, sticker books, and dioramas helped educate metropolitan children ab...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_658 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.658 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.658 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/658 2018-07-20T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3sq All rights reserved Child’s Play? Colonial commodities, ephemera, and the construction of the greater French family Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Heath, Elizabeth gender colonialism chocolate childhood material culture race genre enfance race colonialisme chocolat culture matérielle This article examines ephemera produced for French children in the interwar and early World War II period. Through a study of four different pieces related to chocolate, the article explores how imperially-themed objects like games, sticker books, and dioramas helped educate metropolitan children about the French nation and empire. The article argues that material objects like ephemera provide new opportunities to delve into the imaginaries of metropolitan boys and girls as they practiced, adopted, and interpreted their future roles as men and women of la plus grande France. This source-base therefore offers a novel way to examine the role that empire played in shaping gender in interwar France. Cet article traite des objets éphémères fabriqués à l’intention des petits Français dans l’entre-deux-guerres et à l’aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L’examen de quatre de ces objets tous liés au chocolat, permet d’explorer la manière dont les jeux, albums de vignettes ou dioramas, contribuent à éduquer les enfants métropolitains sur la nation française et son empire. L’hypothèse est que de tels objets éphémères permettent de plonger dans l’imaginaire des filles et des garçons de la métropole occupés à pratiquer, adopter et interpréter leurs futurs rôles d’hommes et de femmes de la “plus grande France”. Ces sources permettent donc d’étudier sous un angle nouveau le rôle joué par l’empire dans la formation du genre en France dans l’entre-deux-guerres. |
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This article examines ephemera produced for French children in the interwar and early World War II period. Through a study of four different pieces related to chocolate, the article explores how imperially-themed objects like games, sticker books, and dioramas helped educate metropolitan children about the French nation and empire. The article argues that material objects like ephemera provide new opportunities to delve into the imaginaries of metropolitan boys and girls as they practiced, adopted, and interpreted their future roles as men and women of la plus grande France. This source-base therefore offers a novel way to examine the role that empire played in shaping gender in interwar France. |
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Heath, Elizabeth |
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Heath, Elizabeth |
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Child’s Play? Colonial commodities, ephemera, and the construction of the greater French family |
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