Postcolonial thought in the French-speaking world / edited by Charles Forsdick and David Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forsdick, Charles.

Murphy, David, 1971-

Series:

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 4.

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--French-speaking countries.

Postcolonialism.

Civilization.

Philosophy.

French-speaking countries--Civilization.

French-speaking countries.

French-speaking countries--Civilization--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 357 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2009.

Summary:

In the late 1990s 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 postcolonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, postcolonial studies began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Edouard Glissant and abdelke̤bir 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. 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 and postcolonial debates. At the same time, it supplies scholars in French with a comprehensive overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-348) and index.

ISBN:

9781846310546

1846310547

1846310555

9781846310553

OCLC:

430495625