Author(s): Charles Forsdick, David Murphy
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 320
Cover
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Francophone
Postcolonial Studies
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Copyright
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Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction: the case for Francophone Postcolonial Studies......Page 16
PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: FROM SLAVERY TO DECOLONIZATION......Page 30
1 Seeds of postcolonialism: black slavery and cultural difference to 1800......Page 32
2 In search of the Haitian Revolution......Page 42
3 ‘Of whatever color’: (dis)locating a place for the creole in nineteenth-century French literature......Page 50
4 Revisiting exoticism: from colonialism to postcolonialism......Page 61
5 Empire on film: from exoticism to ‘cinéma colonial’......Page 71
6 The Camus–Sartre debate and the colonial question in Algeria......Page 81
7 Resistance, submission and oppositionality: national identity in French Canada......Page 92
PART II: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD......Page 104
8 ‘Francophonie’ and ‘universalité’: evolution of two notions conjoined......Page 106
9 ‘Séparisianisme’, or internal colonialism......Page 117
10 ‘This Creole culture, miraculously forged’: the contradictions of ‘créolité’......Page 127
11 Reading ‘orality’ in French-language novels from sub-Saharan Africa......Page 137
PART III: POSTCOLONIAL AXES: NATION AND GLOBALIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCOPHONE CULTURES......Page 148
12 Tactical Universalism and new multiculturalist claims in postcolonial France......Page 150
13 The contribution of north and sub-Saharan African immigrant minorities to the redefinition of contemporary French culture......Page 160
14 Immigration, tourism and postcolonial reinventions of travel......Page 170
15 Frantz Fanon, Atlantic theorist; or decolonization and nation state in postcolonial theory......Page 181
PART IV: POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURE IN THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD......Page 194
16 ‘Faire peau neuve’ – Césaire, Fanon, Memmi, Sartre and Senghor......Page 196
17 Contesting contexts: Francophone thought and Anglophone postcolonialism......Page 207
18 Francophone women writers and postcolonial theory......Page 217
19 Postcolonial thought and culture in Francophone North Africa......Page 226
20 Beyond tradition versus modernity: postcolonial thought and culture in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa......Page 236
21 Postcolonial thought and the Francophone Caribbean......Page 246
22 Resisting colonialism?: Gabrielle Roy and the cultural formation of Francophones in Manitoba......Page 257
23 Colonial undercurrents: the motif of the Mekong in Marguerite Duras’s ‘Indochinese’ texts......Page 268
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