Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature
Roxanna Nydia Curto
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hardcover. Series: Modern Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence authors depict technology as a mediator between them. By providing the first comprehensive study of the representation of technology in relation to colonialism and postcolonialism in francophone literature, Roxanna Curto shows the extent to which the authors promote modernization and social progress.
Curto traces this trend in the wake of decolonization, when a series of important ... Read more
Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence authors depict technology as a mediator between them. By providing the first comprehensive study of the representation of technology in relation to colonialism and postcolonialism in francophone literature, Roxanna Curto shows the extent to which the authors promote modernization and social progress.
Curto traces this trend in the wake of decolonization, when a series of important ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Modern Literature Initiative
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813939223
SKU
V9780813939223
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About Roxanna Nydia Curto
Roxanna Nydia Curto is Assistant Professor of French and Spanish at the University of Iowa.
Reviews for Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature
Inter-tech(s) convincingly tweaks conventional wisdom on the place and meaning of technology in post/colonial societies and forces us to reconsider a number of deeply held assumptions, not the least of which is the long-standing myth of the colonized in the French colonies of sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean as reflexively antitechnological and innately proximate to nature. It reaches in substantial ... Read more