Decolonising the Intellectual - Politics, Culture, and Humanism At the End of the French Empire

This book explores the impossible dilemma facing Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: How could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed?

About the author

Jane Hiddleston is Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Exeter College. Publications include Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria (Liverpool University Press,2006); Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and as co-editor Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form (Liverpool University Press, 2011).

Summary

This book explores the impossible dilemma facing Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: How could they redefine their culture, and the ‘humanity’ they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed?

Product details

• Authors: Jane Hiddleston, Jane (Exeter College Hiddleston
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781800349032
• ISBN: 978-1-80034-903-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies