Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures
Kamal . Ed(S): Salhi
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Description for Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures
Hardback. Organized by region, boasting an international roster of contributors, and including summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to selected terms and figures, Salhi's volume is an ideal introduction to French studies beyond the canon. Editor(s): Salhi, Kamal. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 180 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1012.
The recent rise of Francophone studies within French studies has created the need for a one-volume exploration of the range of expression in the French language following the colonial period. Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures collects discussions of literary texts and cultural identity from Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia—regions of the world that seem to have only the French language in common. Despite enormous differences among all the countries where French is spoken, Francophone literatures tend to deal with a similar spread of issues. This volume positions the study of the Francophone world and its cultures as a comparative ... Read more
The recent rise of Francophone studies within French studies has created the need for a one-volume exploration of the range of expression in the French language following the colonial period. Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures collects discussions of literary texts and cultural identity from Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia—regions of the world that seem to have only the French language in common. Despite enormous differences among all the countries where French is spoken, Francophone literatures tend to deal with a similar spread of issues. This volume positions the study of the Francophone world and its cultures as a comparative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739105672
SKU
V9780739105672
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99-15
About Kamal . Ed(S): Salhi
Kamal Salhi is Director of the Centre for Francophone Studies in the Department of French at the University of Leeds. He is the editor of French In and Out of France: Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms, and Dialogue (2002) and the editor or author of several other works in Francophone studies. He is the founder and editor of the International Journal ... Read more
Reviews for Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures
Professor Salhi offers a collection of work on Francophone issues that is monumental in breadth and scope. The work sets the tone for Francophone Studies in the twenty-first century by offering new insights into the history and the concepts of space and geopolitics, as they relate to notions of cultural identity, language, alienation, and ideologies of Otherness throughout the Francophone ... Read more