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This landmark text constitutes the first comprehensive overview of Francophone
Postcolonial Studies. Moving away from reductive geographical or linguistic surveys of the Francophone world, this collection of original essays provides a thematic discussion of the complex historical, political and cultural links between France and its former colonies. Providing a theoretical framework for postcolonial criticism of the field, it also aims to trigger a genuine dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone scholars of postcolonialism.
Part I provides a historical overview, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, addressing issues of colonialism, slavery and exoticism. Part II looks at language issues and discusses France's belief in the universality of its language and culture and the postcolonial challenges to that view. Part III discusses issues of diversity and multiculturalism in contemporary Francophone cultures. Part IV concludes with an analysis of the French-language contribution to postcolonialism as well as an examination of Francophone postcolonial thought and culture in the principal areas of the French-speaking world.
Edited by two of the up-and-coming names in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, the collection includes contributions from an international team including some of the world's leading scholars in the field.
List of contents
IntroductionThe Case for Francophone Postcolonial StudiesSection 1 Historical Perspectives: from slavery to decolonization1. Seeds of Postcolonialism: black slavery and cultural difference to 18002. In Search of the Haitian Revolution3.âEUR¿Of Whatever ColorâEUR(TM): (dis)locating a place for the creole in nineteenth-century French literature4. Revisiting Exoticism: from colonialism to postcolonialism5. Empire on Film: from exoticism to cinÃ(c)ma colonial6. The Camus-Sartre Debate and the Colonial Question in Algeria7. Resistance, Submission and Oppositionality: national identity in French Canada Section 2
Language and Identity in the Francophone World8. âEUR¿FrancophonieâEUR(TM) and âEUR¿UniversalitÃ(c)âEUR(TM): evolution of two notions conjoined9.âEUR¿SÃ(c)parisianismeâEUR(TM), or internal colonialism10.âEUR¿This Creole Culture, miraculously forgedâEUR(TM): the contradictions of âEUR¿crÃ(c)olitÃ(c)âEUR(TM).11. Reading âEUR¿OralityâEUR(TM) in French-Language Novels from Sub-Saharan Africa Section 3
Postcolonial Axes: Nation and Globalization in Contemporary Francophone Cultures12. Tactical Universalism and New Multiculturalist Claims in Postcolonial France13. The Contribution of North and Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Minorities to the Redefinition of Contemporary French Culture14. Immigration, Tourism and Postcolonial Reinventions of Travel15. Frantz Fanon, Atlantic Theorist, or Decolonization and Nation State in Postcolonial Theory Section 4
Postcolonial Thought and Culture in the Francophone World16. âEUR¿Faire peau neuveâEUR(TM)âEUR"CÃ(c)saire, Fanon, Memmi, Sartre and Senghor17. Contesting Contexts: Francophone Thought and Anglophone Postcolonialism18. Francophone Women Writers and Postcolonial Theory19. Postcolonial Thought and Culture in Francophone North Africa20. Beyond Tradition versus Modernity: Postcolonial Thought and Culture in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa21. Postcolonial Thought and the Francophone Caribbean22. Resisting Colonialism? Gabrielle Roy and the cultural formation of Francophones in Manitoba23. Colonial Undercurrents? The motif of the Mekong in Marguerite DurasâEUR(TM)s âEUR¿IndochineseâEUR(TM) textsBibliographyIndex
About the author
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Toussaint Louverture (Pluto, 2017), author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures (Oxford University Press 2005) and co-editor of The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke University Press, 2017).
