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Decolonising the Intellectual - Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire (Paperback)
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Decolonising the Intellectual - Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 33
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Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the
decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. 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 they were formed? Figures such as Senghor,
Cesaire, Fanon, Amrouche, Feraoun and Kateb were all educated,
indeed immersed, in French culture and language, yet they
intervened forcefully in political debates surrounding
decolonisation and sought to contribute to the reinvention of local
cultures in a gesture of resistance to the ongoing French presence.
Despite their pivotal role during this period of upheaval, then,
their project was fraught with tensions that form the focus of this
study. In particular, these writers reflected on the relation
between universality and particularity in intellectual work, and
struggled to avoid the traps associated with an over-investment in
either domain. They also all learned from metropolitan French
humanist thought but strove continually to reinvent that humanism
so as to account for colonised experience and culture. Their work
also readdresses the ongoing question of the relation between
literature or culture and politics, and testifies to a moment of
intense dialogue, and potential conflict, between contrasting but
complementary spheres of activity.
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