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 C. Forsdick et D. Murphy,  Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World

C. Forsdick et D. Murphy, Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

FORSDICK, Charles et David MURPHY, Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (Postcolonialism across the Disciplines), 2009, 256 p.

 ISBN 9781846310553

RÉSUMÉ

In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as acredible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and anoveremphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustainedcritiques of the field and to an active search for alternativeapproaches to the globalized and transnational formations of thepost-colonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however,postcolonial began to reveal a new openness to its comparativedimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (suchas Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi) have recently risen togreater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have alsoappeared an increasing number of important critical and theoreticaltexts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principallyon French-language material. It is to such a context that this bookresponds.

Acknowledging these shifts, this volume provides anessential tool for students and scholars outside French departmentsseeking a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonialdebates. At the same time, it supplies scholars in French with acomprehensive overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in thisarea.