Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World
Forsdick, CharlesContributor
Murphy, DavidContributor
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2009.
In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalized and transnational formations of the post-colonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, postcolonial began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi) have recently risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have also appeared an increasing number of important critical and theoretical texts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principally on French-language material. It is to such a context that this book responds. Acknowledging these shifts, this volume provides an essential tool for students and scholars outside French departments seeking a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates. At the same time, it supplies scholars in French with a comprehensive overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Twelve Key Thinkers -- Aimé Césaire and Francophone postcolonial thought / Mary Gallagher -- Maryse Condé : post-postcolonial? / Typhaine Leservot -- Jacques Derrida : colonialism, philosophy and autobiography / Jane Hiddleston -- Assia Djebar : 'Fiction as a way of "thinking"' / Nicholas Harrison -- Frantz Fanon : colonialism and volence / Max Silverman -- Édouard Glissant : dealing in globality / Chris Bongie -- Tangled history and photographic (in)visibility : Ho Chi Minh on the edge of French political culture / Panivong Norindr -- Translating plurality : Abdelkébir Khatibi and postcolonial writing in French from the Maghreb / Alison Rice -- Albert Memmi : the conflict of legacies / Patrick Crowley -- V.Y. Mudimbe's 'long nineteenth century" / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture -- Roads to freedom : Jean-Paul Sartre and anti-colonialism / Patrick Williams -- Léopold Sédar Senghor : race, language, empire / David Murphy -- Themes, approaches, theories -- Postcolonial anthropology in the French-speaking world / David Richards -- French theory and the exotic / Jennifer Yee -- The end of the Ancien Régime French Empire / Laurent Dubois -- The end of the Republican Empire (1918-62) / Philip Dine -- Postcolonialism and deconstruction : the Francophone connection / Michael Syrotinski -- Negritude, présence Africaine, race / Richard Watts -- Francophone island cultures : comparing discourses of identity in 'is-land' literatures / Pascale De Souza -- Locating Quebec on the postcolonial map / Mary Jean Green -- Diversity and difference in postcolonial France / Tyler Stovall -- Colonialism, postcolonialism and the cultures of commemoration / Charles Forsdick -- Gender and empire in the world of film / Winifred Woodhull -- From colonial to postcolonial : reflections on the colonial debate in France / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard.
In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalized and transnational formations of the post-colonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, postcolonial began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi) have recently risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have also appeared an increasing number of important critical and theoretical texts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principally on French-language material. It is to such a context that this book responds. Acknowledging these shifts, this volume provides an essential tool for students and scholars outside French departments seeking a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates. At the same time, it supplies scholars in French with a comprehensive overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postcolonialism