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Decolonising the Intellectual: Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire

Decolonising the Intellectual: Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire

Hiddleston, Jane

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Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, Book 33

Literary CriticismFrench History

ISBN10: 1800349033
ISBN13: 9781800349032
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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, Césaire, 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

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