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

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121351
• ISBN-10: 0739121359
• Artikelnr.: 25693690

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth M. Mudimbe-Boyi is professor of French and comparative literature at Stanford University.

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