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Recognized as one of the most influential studies of memory in the
late twentieth century, Pierre Nora's monumental project Les Lieux
de memoire has been celebrated for its elaboration of a
ground-breaking paradigm for rethinking the relationship between
the nation, territory, history and memory. It has also, however,
been criticized for implying a narrow perception of national memory
from which the legacy of colonialism was excluded. Driven by an
increasingly critical postcolonial discourse on French
historiography and fuelled by the will to acknowledge the relevance
of the colonial in the making of modern and contemporary France,
the present volume intends to address in a collective and sustained
manner this critical gap by postcolonializing the French Republic's
lieux de memoire. The various chapters discern and explore an
initial repertoire of realms and sites in France and the so-called
Outremer that crystalize traces of colonial memory, while
highlighting its inherent dialectical relationship with firmly
instituted national memory. By making visible the invisible thread
that links the colonial to various manifestations of French
heritage, the objective is to bring to the fore the need to anchor
the colonial in a collective memory that has often silenced it, and
to foster new readings of the past as it is represented, remembered
and inscribed in the nation's collective imaginary.
Recognized as one of the most influential studies of memory in the
late twentieth century, Pierre Nora's monumental project Les Lieux
de memoire has been celebrated for its elaboration of a
ground-breaking paradigm for rethinking the relationship between
the nation, territory, history and memory. It has also, however,
been criticized for implying a narrow perception of national memory
from which the legacy of colonialism was excluded. Driven by an
increasingly critical postcolonial discourse on French
historiography and fuelled by the will to acknowledge the relevance
of the colonial in the making of modern and contemporary France,
the present volume intends to address in a collective and sustained
manner this critical gap by postcolonializing the French Republic's
lieux de memoire. The various chapters discern and explore an
initial repertoire of realms and sites in France and the so-called
Outremer that crystalize traces of colonial memory, while
highlighting its inherent dialectical relationship with firmly
instituted national memory. By making visible the invisible thread
that links the colonial to various manifestations of French
heritage, the objective is to bring to the fore the need to anchor
the colonial in a collective memory that has often silenced it, and
to foster new readings of the past as it is represented, remembered
and inscribed in the nation's collective imaginary.
What does it mean to be an African writer or a Francophone African
writer at the beginning of the twenty first century? How are
history, time and the body represented in contemporary Francophone
African fiction? How are authors working with, changing and
subverting the French language? How is 'Africa' represented in the
literary imagination? What discourses on Africa arise from literary
texts? This study takes stock of Francophone African literary
production at the end of the twentieth century, proposing that the
literatures are characterised by a remarkable vitality and
diversity. The work also introduces the new literary texts of the
1980s and 1990s, which have enriched world literature, and
considers how new subjects and thematic continuities are giving
rise to changing critical approaches and methodologies. (In French)
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