Rethinking Francophone Culture

Africa and the Caribbean between History and Theory

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ID9250842
AuthorsKamal Salhi (0000-0003-2686-1979, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume35
Issue1
Pages9-29
Publication date2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/ral.2004.35.1.9
OpenAlexW1964730626
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, large areas of the world were controlled by the French colonial power. As a select few from the indigenous peoples in these areas were educated in colonial schools, it was inevitable that French thought and theory then developing there would influence them in disharmony. They would explore, reinvent, and sometimes apply it to seek the liberation of their people from colonial rule. This article is intended to analyze critical issues relating to Africa and the Caribbean as they rebound in the expression of their writing, and the discourses that have constructed models for interpretative approaches to theoretical frameworks for these writings. It seeks to highlight and rethink the most compelling, shared features of francophone postcolonial cultures and examines what these cultures have in common, and the ways our interests as researchers, citizens, and people with a general influence reflect a shared concern for the complex, postcolonial cultural diversity inherent in the francophone canon

Art · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Diversity (politics) · Ethnology · French · Humanities · Indigenous · Indigenous culture · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law

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