When the walls Fall : is national identity an outlaw?

Titre: When the walls Fall : is national identity an outlaw?; Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
Titre du volume: 2
Traducteur(s): Jeffrey Allen Landon; Charly Verstraet
Volume: 22
Date: 2018
Langue(s): Anglais
Issn: 1740-9292
Résumé: When the Walls Fall is a manifesto written by Glissant and Chamoiseau against the creation of the Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity, and Co-development established in 2007 by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The manifesto is a call against the building of walls that separate us rather than relate us one to another in a society. Walls are contradictory to the notion of Relation that Glissant and Chamoiseau advocate, where one would be open to the unpredictable and unforeseeable. Both authors criticize the notion of a national identity that would be fixed and firmly established.
Creator: Patrick Chamoiseau; Édouard Glissant
Subject: nettoyé
pages: 259-270
short title: When the Walls Fall