Empire lost : France and its other worlds.
Title:
Empire lost : France and its other worlds.
Author:
Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth.
ISBN:
9780739132241
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Series:
After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Contents:
Content -- Acknowledgments for Permission -- Introduction -- Ouverture: Writing Loss-Indochina, Algeria-Voices Entwined -- PART ONE: HOMOGENEITY SUBVERTED -- Chapter 01. Laïcité in the French Public School System: In the Name of the Law! -- Chapter 02. Muslims in France: History under the Carpet -- Chapter 03. Beyond Postcolonialism: Globalization and Postcolonial Minorities in France -- Chapter 04. We, the Virtual Francophone Multitudes?: Neobarbarisms and Microencounters -- Chapter 05. "No Green Pastures": The African Americanization of France -- Part TWO: CROSS-TEXTUAL ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter 06. A Poetics of Relationality: Victor Segalen's Stèles -- Chapter 07. Whose Other?: The Centrality of Language to Identity and Representation in Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée -- Chapter 08. Shadowing Assia Djebar -- Chapter 09. L'Esprit de Corps: French Civilization and the Death of the Colonized Soldier -- Chapter 10. Franco-African Artistic and Cultural Cooperation -- Conclusion: My Mother Tongue, My Paternal Languages -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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