Empire Lost

France and Its Other Worlds
Herausgeber: Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the different constituencies of the world's French-speaking regions needs to be reexamined and debated. This book questions ingrained assumptions, pointing out the complexity of a never-ending relationship between francophone communities after the Empire.

Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121351
• ISBN-10: 0739121359
• Artikelnr.: 25693690

Autorenporträt

Edited by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi - Contributions by Jean-Loup Amselle; André Benhaim; Karl Britto; Jocelyn Dakhlia; Assia Djebar; Alec Hargreaves; Yvonne Hsieh; Mireille Le Breton; Trevor Merrill; Kathy Richman; Mireille Rosello; Haun Saussy; Michel Serre

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Ouverture Part 3 Homogeneity Subverted
Chapter 4 Laïcité in the French School Public System: In the Name of the
Law Chapter 5 Muslims in France: History under the Carpet Chapter 6 No
Refuge: The African-Americanization of France Chapter 7 L'Esprit de Corps:
French Civilization and the Death of the Colonial Soldier Chapter 8 Beyond
Post-Colonialism: Globalization and Post-Colonial Minorities in France Part
9 Cross-Textual Encounters Chapter 10 A Poetics of Relationality: Victor
Segalen's Stèles Chapter 11 Whose Other?: The Centrality of Language to
Identity and Representation in Roumain's Gouverneurs de la Rosée Chapter 12
Shadowing Assia Djebar Chapter 13 Franco-African Artist and Cultural
Cooperation Chapter 14 We, the Virtual Francophone Multitudes:
Neo-Barbarisms and Micro-Encounters Chapter 15 Closure: My Mother Tongue,
My Paternal Languages