Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World
David Murphy editor Charles Forsdick editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Published:1st Jun '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In the late 1990’s, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalized and transnational formations of the post-colonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, postcolonial began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi) have recently risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have also appeared an increasing number of important critical and theoretical texts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principally on French-language material. It is to such a context that this book responds. Acknowledging these shifts, this volume provides an essential tool for students and scholars outside French departments seeking a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates. At the same time, it supplies scholars in French with a comprehensive overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.
This is a boldly conceived and finely executed volume which will surely become a major reference point for a wide range of disciplines.
Alec Hargreaves
ISBN: 9781846310553
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357 pages