Postcolonial thought in the French-speaking world
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Postcolonial thought in the French-speaking world
(Postcolonialism across the disciplines / series editors, Graham Huggan, Andrew Thompson, 4)
Liverpool University Press, 2009
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 313-348
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Situating Francophone Postcolonial Thought - Charles Forsdick and David Murphy
Section 1: Twelve Key Thinkers
1. Aime Cesaire and Francophone Postcolonial Thought - Mary Gallagher
2. Maryse Conde: Post-Postcolonial? - Typhaine Leservot
3. Jacques Derrida: Colonialism, Philosophy and Autobiography - Jane Hiddleston
4. Assia Djebar: 'Fiction as a way of "thinking"' - Nicholas Harrison
5. Frantz Fanon: Colonialism and Violence - Max Silverman
6. Edouard Glissant: Dealing in Globality - Chris Bongie
7. Tangled History and Photographic (In)Visibility: Ho Chi Minh on the Edge of French Political Culture - Panivong Norindr
8. Translating Plurality: Abdelkebir Khatibi and Postcolonial Writing in French from the Maghreb - Alison Rice
9. Albert Memmi: The Conflict of Legacies - Patrick Crowley
10. V. Y. Mudimbe's 'Long Nineteenth Century' - Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
11. Roads to Freedom: Jean-Paul Sartre and Anti-colonialism - Patrick Williams
12. Leopold Sedar Senghor: Race, Language, Empire - David Murphy
Section 2: Themes, Approaches, Theories
13. Postcolonial Anthropology in the French-speaking World - David Richards
14. French Theory and the Exotic - Jennifer Yee
15. The End of the Ancien Regime French Empire - Laurent Dubois
16. The End of the Republican Empire (1918-62) - Philip Dine
17. Postcolonialism and Deconstruction: The Francophone Connection - Michael Syrotinski
18. Negritude, Presence Africaine, Race - Richard Watts
19. Francophone Island Cultures: Comparing Discourses of Identity in 'Is-land' Literatures - Pascale De Souza
20. Locating Quebec on the Postcolonial Map - Mary Jean Green
21. Diversity and Difference in Postcolonial France - Tyler Stovall
22. Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Cultures of Commemoration - Charles Forsdick
23. Gender and Empire in the World of Film - Winifred Woodhull
24. From Colonial to Postcolonial: Reflections on the Colonial Debate in France - Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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