Postcolonial Poetics: l'exception francophone?
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Titre
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Postcolonial Poetics: l'exception francophone?
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Modern & Contemporary France
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Titre du volume
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2
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Volume
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18
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Date
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2010/05
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Langue(s)
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English
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Issn
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09639489
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Résumé
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Poetics, as the discourse of literary specificity, is extraordinarily predominant not merely in francophone anti-colonialism, but also in the subsequent francophone discursive construction of postcolonial relations. Not only was the discourse of negritude dominated by literary figures such as Aime Cesaire, but the thinking of Edouard Glissant, one of the foremost postcolonial intellectuals writing in French today, has also been consistently articulated as a poetics, both in the author's extensive literary criticism and in his extensive literary œuvre. Similarly, many of Glissant's direct Caribbean heirs also project above all the (meta)literary or literary-theoretical valency of their thought. Meanwhile, the contemporary French academy has remained to date relatively impermeable to the chief discourses and references of Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, and Globalisation Studies that are hegemonic in the anglophone academy. And yet, these academic discourses frequently reference francophone postcolonialism, including the work of the aformentioned Caribbean writers. What are the implications of the privileged place accorded in the work of francophone postcolonialism to poetics, to that sutured theory and practice of literature, for the way that scholarship negotiates the notions of empire and culture and their interrelation? Does 'francophone postcolonial poetics' sound a dissident note against a globally dominant discursive consensus? (English)
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Creator
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Mary Gallagher
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Subject
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20TH century French literature
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CESAIRE, Aime, 1913-2008
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GLISSANT, Edouard, 1928-2011
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GLOBALIZATION
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IMPERIALISM -- Social aspects
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POETICS
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POSTCOLONIAL analysis
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POSTCOLONIALISM
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POWER (Social sciences)
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pages
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251-268
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short title
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Modern & Contemporary France
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Postcolonial Poetics
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doi
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10.1080/09639481003714773