Decolonising the intellectual : politics, culture, and humanism at the end of the French empire /

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This volume explores the impossible dilemma facing francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: how could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hiddleston, Jane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 33
Subjects:
1900-1999
Humanism > History > 20th century.
Decolonization > Social aspects.
Decolonization > Social aspects > Africa, French-speaking.
Humanisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Décolonisation > Aspect social.
Décolonisation > Aspect social > Afrique francophone.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
French colonies.
Humanism.
Intellectual life.
Kolonie
Entkolonialisierung
Wissenschaftssoziologie
France > Intellectual life > 20th century.
French-speaking countries > Intellectual life.
France > Colonies > Africa > Intellectual life.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Francophonie > Vie intellectuelle.
Africa.
French-speaking Africa.
France.
French-speaking countries.
Frankreich
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor: politician and poet between hybridity and solitude
  • Aimé Césaire: from poetic insurrection to humanist ethics
  • Frantz Fanon: experiments in collective identity
  • Jean El-Moouhoub Amrouche: the universal intellectual?
  • Mouloud Feraoun: postcolonial realism, or, the intellectual as witness
  • Kateb Yacine: poetry and revolution
  • Conclusion.

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