The 2007 manifesto in favour of a "Litterature-monde en francais"
has generated new debates in both "francophone" and "postcolonial"
studies. Praised by some for breaking down the hierarchical
division between "French" and "Francophone" literatures, the
manifesto has been criticized by others for recreating that
division through an exoticizing vision that continues to privilege
the publishing industry of the former colonial metropole. Does the
manifesto signal the advent of a new critical paradigm destined to
render obsolescent those of "francophone" and/or "postcolonial"
studies? Or is it simply a passing fad, a glitzy but ephemeral
publicity stunt generated and promoted by writers and publishing
executives vis-a-vis whom scholars and critics should maintain a
skeptical distance? Does it offer an all-embracing transnational
vista leading beyond the confines of postcolonialism or reintroduce
an incipient form of neocolonialism even while proclaiming the end
of the centre/periphery divide? In addressing these questions,
leading scholars of "French", "Francophone" and "postcolonial"
studies from around the globe help to assess the wider question of
the evolving status of French Studies as a transnational field of
study amid the challenges of globalization.
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