Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
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 debate—including the work of Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi—have 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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Situating Francophone Postcolonial Thought
Charles Forsdick and David Murphy
Section 1: 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 Violence
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
Section 2: 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
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
Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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