When the Walls Fall
Is National Identity an Outlaw
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Chamoiseau (corresponding author), Édouard Glissant, Jeffrey Landon Allen, Charly Verstraet |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-270 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17409292.2018.1477282 |
| OpenAlex | W2809353633 |
| Language | EN |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Christian ministry · Fall of man · Identity (music · Immigration · Manifesto · National identity · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |