Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7x1x9. First edition. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1995 Hard Cover. x, 261 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Kristin Ross explores how the modern French resistance to influence from the US and former French colonies is framed in metaphors of purity and defilement to evoke the image of a pristine culture beset by foreign contamination.