Universalisms and francophonies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6150320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franoise Lionnet (UCLA., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-221 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-2679 • E-ISSN: 1758-9142 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/ijfs.12.2-3.203/1 |
| OpenAlex | W1997504758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 11 |
To reject the term Francophone, that describes so well non-hexagonal literatures and puts them in dialogue with Anglophone, Hispanophone or Sinophone literatures, is tantamount to acquiescing to the metropole's old assimilationist agendas. The manifesto pour une littrature-monde en franais (Le Bris et al. 2007) is a well-meaning but clumsy attempt at renaming other literatures in order to have them fit into the world Republic of Letters as defined and understood by a universalizing French perspective. By ignoring the specificities of bilingualism, the manifesto remains indifferent to the rhetorical practices that are the philological hallmark of many Francophone texts. This essay surveys some of the negative reactions to the manifesto and proposes a definition of francophonies, in the plural, that opens up literature to new and productive understandings of universality in a decentred and multilingual world
Epistemology · Feminism · French · Linguistics · Manifesto · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Philology · Plural · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · North African History and Literature · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
Francophone African Literary Prizes and the ‘Empire of the French Language’
World Literature in French, littérature-monde , and the Translingual Turn
The Politics and Ethics of Translation in the Works of Abdelkebir Khatibi
Representing the Twenty-First Century Migrant Experience
The Ambivalent Transnationalism of a Literature-World-in French
The Translingual Turn and French Literary Prize-winners
Between words and images
Being-in-the-World in the Global Age
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |