Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World Paperback / softback
Edited by Charles Forsdick, David Murphy
Part of the Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines series
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:357 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2009
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- ISBN:9781846310553
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:357 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2009
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- ISBN:9781846310553