Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (Arnold Publication)

320 Pages·2003·1.52 MB·English

by  Charles Forsdick

Francophone Postcolonial Studies
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Francophone
Postcolonial Studies
A critical introduction
Edited by
CHARLES FORSDICK
James Barrow Professor of French
University of Liverpool
and
DAVID MURPHY
Lecturer in French
University of Stirling
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: the case for Francophone Postcolonial Studies 1
Charles Forsdick and David Murphy
PART I HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: FROM
SLAVERY TO DECOLONIZATION
1 Seeds of postcolonialism: black slavery and cultural difference
to 1800 17
Roger Little
2 In search of the Haitian Revolution 27
Laurent Dubois
3 ‘Of whatever color’: (dis)locating a place for the creole in
nineteenth-century French literature 35
Chris Bongie
4 Revisiting exoticism: from colonialism to postcolonialism 46
Charles Forsdick
5 Empire on film: from exoticism to ‘cinéma colonial’ 56
Elizabeth Ezra
6 The Camus–Sartre debate and the colonial question in Algeria 66
Azzedine Haddour
7 Resistance, submission and oppositionality: national identity
in French Canada 77
Marilyn Randall
vi Contents
PART II LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE
FRANCOPHONE WORLD
8 ‘Francophonie’ and ‘universalité’: evolution of two
notions conjoined 91
Gabrielle Parker
9 ‘Séparisianisme’, or internal colonialism 102
Heather Williams
10 ‘This Creole culture, miraculously forged’: the contradictions
of ‘créolité’ 112
Maeve McCusker
11 Reading ‘orality’ in French-language novels from
sub-Saharan Africa 122
Eileen Julien
PART III POSTCOLONIAL AXES: NATION AND
GLOBALIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY
FRANCOPHONE CULTURES
12 Tactical Universalism and new multiculturalist claims in
postcolonial France 135
Mireille Rosello
13 The contribution of north and sub-Saharan African
immigrant minorities to the redefinition of contemporary
French culture 145
Alec G. Hargreaves
14 Immigration, tourism and postcolonial reinventions of travel 155
Aedín Ní Loingsigh
15 Frantz Fanon, Atlantic theorist; or decolonization and nation
state in postcolonial theory 166
Andy Stafford
PART IV POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND
CULTURE IN THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
16 ‘Faire peau neuve’ – Césaire, Fanon, Memmi, Sartre
and Senghor 181
Patrick Williams
17 Contesting contexts: Francophone thought and
Anglophone postcolonialism 192
John McLeod
Contents vii
18 Francophone women writers and postcolonial theory 202
Anne Donadey
19 Postcolonial thought and culture in Francophone North Africa 211
Winifred Woodhull
20 Beyond tradition versus modernity: postcolonial thought
and culture in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa 221
David Murphy
21 Postcolonial thought and the Francophone Caribbean 231
J. Michael Dash
22 Resisting colonialism? Gabrielle Roy and the cultural
formation of Francophones in Manitoba 242
Rosemary Chapman
23 Colonial undercurrents: the motif of the Mekong in
Marguerite Duras’s ‘Indochinese’ texts 253
Julia Waters
Bibliography 263
Index 297
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Contributors
Chris Bongie teaches in the English Department at Queen’s University,
Canada. He is the author of two books, Exotic Memories: Literature,
Colonialism and the Fin de Siècle (1991) and Islands and Exiles: The Creole
Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (1998), and is currently completing a
translation/critical edition of Victor Hugo’s novel about the Haitian
Revolution,Bug-Jargal(to be published in 2004).
Rosemary Chapman is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of
Nottingham. Author of Siting the Quebec Novel (2000) and co-author of
Francophone Literatures: a Literary and Linguistic Companion(2001), she
has published articles on Tremblay, Hébert, Ouellette-Michalska, Théoret
and Roy. Her current research focuses on Gabrielle Roy.
J. Michael Dash, Professor of French and Director of Africana Studies at
New York University, has worked extensively on French Caribbean writers.
His publications include Literature and Ideology in Haiti(1981),Haiti and
the United States (1988), Édouard Glissant (1995). His most recent books
are The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
(1998),Libète:A Haiti Anthology(with Charles Arthur, 1999) and Culture
and Customsof Haiti(2001).
Anne Donadeyis Associate Professor of French and Women’s Studies at San
Diego State University in California. She is the author of Recasting
Postcolonialism: Women Writing between Worlds (2001) and of a number
of articles on Francophone women writers, the politics of racial representa-
tion, and anti-racist feminist education.
Laurent Dubois is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State
University. His publications include Les Esclaves de la République (1998)
andA Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French