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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewThis is a boldly conceived and finely executed volume which will surely become a major reference point for a wide range of disciplines.
Alec HargreavesTable of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Situating Francophone Postcolonial Thought - Charles Forsdick and David Murphy
- Section 1: Twelve Key Thinkers
- 1. Aimé Césaire and Francophone Postcolonial Thought - Mary Gallagher
- 2. Maryse Condé: 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. Édouard 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: Abdelkébir 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. Léopold Sédar 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 Régime 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, Présence 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
