Political Practices of Myth. The Official Production of Belgian Colonialism at the International Exhibitions and World's Fairs in Belgium (1897-1958) ; Pratiques politiques du mythe. La représentation officielle du fait colonial belge aux expositions universelles et internationales en Belgique (1897-1958)

This work questions the way the Belgian political colonial fact has been produced and understood in a mythical manner in Belgium, especially studying its official representation at the international exhibitions between 1897 and 1958. It also aims at constructing a general theoretical frame and an empirical method to make political myth a research object. It first deals with the reconstitution of the colonial mythology, diachronically analysing the significations of the symbolical objects exhibited along the period, putting them in a narrative form, and trying to find out the structure of this... Mehr ...