Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World

by Forsdick, Charles; Murphy, David

• ISBN13: 9781846310553
• ISBN10: 1846310555
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

In the late 1990s, postcolonial studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic inquiry, in part due to the emergence of repetitive anthologies and an overemphasis on English-language literatures. In the early twenty-first century, however, the postcolonial began to reveal a new openness towards its comparative dimensions, and French-language contributions to the postcolonial debateincluding the work of Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibihave risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world. This volume, written by scholars working with French-language materials, acknowledges this shift and provides an essential tool for students and scholars seeking a way into the study of Francophone postcolonial debates.

Author Biography

Charles Forsdick is the James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool and the author of numerous volumes. David Murphy is professor of postcolonial studies at the University of Stirling and president of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Situating Francophone Postcolonial Thought	p. 1
Twelve Key Thinkers
Aimé Césaire and Francophone Postcolonial Thought	p. 31
Maryse Condé: Post-Postcolonial?	p. 42
Jacques Derrida: Colonialism, Philosophy and Autobiography	p. 23
Assia Djebar: Fiction as a way of ôthinkingö	p. 65
Frantz Fanon: Colonialism and Violence	p. 77
édouard Glissant: Dealing in Globality	p. 90
Tangled History and Photographic (In) Visibility: Ho Chi Minh on the Edge of French Political Cultural	p. 102
Translating Puurality: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Postcolonial Writing in French from the Maghreb	p. 115
Albert Memmi: The Confict of Legacies	p. 126
V.Y. Mudimbe's 'Long Nineteenth Century'	p. 136
Roads to Freedom: Jean-Paul Sartre and Anti-colonialism	p. 147
Léopold Sédar Senghor: Race, Language, Empire	p. 157
Themes, Approaches, Theories
Postcolonial Anthropology in the French-speaking World	p. 173
French Theory and the Exotic	p. 185
The End of the Ancien Régime French Empire	p. 195
The End of the Republican Empire (1918-62)	p. 205
Postcolonialism and Deconstruction: The Francophone Connection	p. 216
Negritude, Présence Africaine, Race	p. 227
Francophone Island Cultures: Comparing Discourses of Identity in 'Is-land' Literatures	p. 238
Locating Qubec on the Postcolonial Map	p. 248
Diversity and Difference in Postcolonial France	p. 259
Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Cultures of Commemoration	p. 271
Gender and Empire in the World of Flim	p. 285
From Colonial to Postcolonial: Reflections on the Colonial Debate in France	p. 295
Notes on Contributors	p. 306
Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 349
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