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Empire lost : France and its other worlds / edited by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

Published
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxix, 236 pages).
Additional Creators
Mudimbe-boyi, M. Elisabeth
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Overture / Assia Djebar -- Laïcité in the French public school system: in the name of the law! / Mireille Le Breton -- Muslims in France: history under the carpet / Jocelyne Dakhlia -- Beyond postcolonialism: globalization and postcolonial minorities in France / Alec G. Hargreaves -- We, the virtual francophone multitudes? Neobarbarisms and microencounters / Mireille Rosello -- "No green pastures": the African Americanization of France / Tyler Stovall -- A poetics of relationality: Victor Segalen's Stèles / Yvonne Hsieh -- Whose other? The centrality of language to identity and representations in Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée / Kathy Richman -- Shadowing Assia Djebar / André Benhaïm -- L'esprit de corps: French civilization and the death of the colonized soldier / Karl Ashoka Britto -- Franco-African artistic and cultural cooperation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Conclusion: My mother tongue, my paternal languages / Michel Serres.
Summary
"Despite the loss of the French Empire, France and its former colonies are still bound by a common historical past. With the new global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the various constituencies of the French-speaking regions of the world is reexamined and debated in this book, through the conversation between scholars dealing with diverse texts and contexts that present the colonial contact and its imprint. Empire Lost illustrates how, in France and in its other worlds, that contact, its repercussions, and its memory are lived and expressed today in a variety of textual representations." "The historical contact between France and its other worlds has given birth to new kinds of cross-cultural expressions in the arts, in literature, and in aesthetics, establishing interrelations and generating appropriations from both sides of the hexagon frontier, highlighting the fluidity and the permeability of its culturaI borders. The book subtext tells that the frontier between France and its other worlds is no more an unshakable geographical, political, and cultural limit, but rather a line that has become mobile, fluctuating, and permeable, and across which currents, ideas, sensitivities, and creativity are expressed, bearing testimony to vitality and diversity but also to a cross-fertilization of cultures and societies (re)crossing or meeting at that line." "Seen from this latter perspective, the book comes also as an interrogation of the inclusiveness or exclusiveness of the words Francophone and Francophonie, and, at an academic level, a mutual exclusion of French and Francophone Studies."--Jacket
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ISBN
9780739132241 (ebook)
0739132245 (electronic)
1282493922
9781282493926
9786612493928
6612493925
0739132245 (ebook)
9780739121351 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0739121359 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index.
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