French Africa: A Colonial Victory or a Moral One?

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004691131_011" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004691131_011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

French Africa: A Colonial Victory or a Moral One?

Original language description

After independence, new sub-Saharan countries which had been French colonies struggled with cultural alienation and postcolonial identity theft. Narratives concerning the newly formed nations had to be redefined, or, rather, recovered and sometimes completely re-created. This task fell mainly to the sub-Saharan elites who had been molded by the French educational system imported into the colonies. Thus the basic framework of the newly created states was in turn based on a Western or French understanding of the general society as well as the components that make it up. After decolonization the inhabitants of the former colonies were faced with the task of creating new narratives separate from that of the previous homogenizing context of outside oppression. It was necessary to redefine how to be and how to belong within these newly emerging social contexts. The ambivalence of colonial &quot;silence&quot; and the various manifestations and legacies of the colonial policies of France came to be problematized in sociopolitical systems as well as in literature. With a few exceptions, the authors discussed in this chapter were published in Paris. Thus, while African writers were attached to the metropolis that welcomed them, the space reserved for them there remained on the margins, defined and limited by the origins and social status of these authors. The reactions of authors, publishers and readers to this putative marginalization played a significant role in the peripheralization of sub-Saharan literary production.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Centers And Peripjeries In Romance Language Literatures In The Americas and Africa

ISBN

978-90-04-69112-4

Number of pages of the result

20

Pages from-to

252-271

Number of pages of the book

623

Publisher name

Brill

Place of publication

Leiden

UT code for WoS chapter

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