The Other Hybrid Archipelago: ntroduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean (After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: October 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780739116760
Subjects: Literary History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Australian & Oceanian; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / Australian & Oceanian; African; French Literature; History and criticism; Indian Ocean Region; Intellectual life
Description: "The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of populations that have settled there and the dominant influence of French colonialism. This survey concentrates on the period since the Second World War, when most of the islands achieved independence, except for Reunion and Mayotte, which maintain a regional status within the French Republic. The postcolonial approach suggests certain recurrent themes and preoccupations of the islands' cultures and an appropriate way to define their recent cultural production, while taking account of the burden of their colonial past. The rich cocktail of cultural and linguistic influences surveyed is situated in relation to the contemporary political and social context of the islands and their marginal status within the global economy."--Jacket.