Empire Lost - France and Its Other Worlds

Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth M. Mudimbe-Boyi is professor of French and comparative literature at Stanford University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
• Assisted by: Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Editor), Mudimbe-Boyi Elisabeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2009
• EAN: 9780739121351
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2135-1
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literature: history & criticism, Diplomacy