{"product_id":"cock-and-bull-stories-folco-de-baroncelli-and-the-invention-of-the-camargue-9780803218383","title":"Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue","description":"In the French Camargue--the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern \"nation\" of Occitania--the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. How this came to be--how the Camargue bull came to confront the French cock, venerable symbol of a unified and republican France--is the story told in this ingenious study. Robert Zaretsky considers how in fin-de-siècle France the young writer Folco de Baroncelli, inspired by the history of the American West, in particular the fate of the Oglala Sioux and other Native American peoples, reinvented the history of Occitania. Galvanized by the example set by Buffalo Bill Cody, Baroncelli recast the Camargue as \"le far-west\" of France, creating the \"immemorial\" traditions he battled to protect. Zaretsky's study examines the creative tension between center and periphery in the making of modern France: just as the political and intellectual elite of the Third Republic \"invented\" a certain kind of France, so too did a coterie of southern writers, including Baroncelli, \"invent\" a certain kind of Camargue. The story of how the Camargue bull challenged the French cock in this ideological and cultural Wild West deepens our appreciation of the complex dynamic that has created contemporary France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Zaretsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803218383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Zaretsky is an associate professor in the Honors College and Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston and the author of \u003ci\u003eNîmes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Department of the Gard, 1938-1944\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40138416783475,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7fbdb904-b810-4ef9-ac80-a6824f6bf709.jpg?v=1654349287","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/cock-and-bull-stories-folco-de-baroncelli-and-the-invention-of-the-camargue-9780803218383","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}