... to the colonial condition. However, the colonial legacy continues to pervade Daoud’s own narrative particularly in his portrayal of contemporary Algeria and Islam. There are unresolved contradictions in the fabric of Daoud’s text as well as a silence that emerges from a hyperbolic bavardage . Copyright © 2020...

... nature as a poetic agent, the author argues that his historical role as an agent of cultural transfer emerges. Using the aesthetic of convulsive beauty as a case study, the author shows how Moro’s poetic mythification of Peru’s colonial legacy creates a hybrid surrealist canon through metonymic...

... be defined as an attempt to disentangle the truth of a region from the colonial discourses that define it. This truth is cast, in decolonial terms, as the uncovering of an authentic subaltern voice, one that would be, in its ideal form, largely unmediated by the European colonial legacy. While decolonial...

... of race in the national narrative, the writing of French history, and the critique of the concept and practices of francophonie being among the most notable. To many, it seemed that France, in the space of a few years, had gone from amnesia to obsession with the colonial legacy, from colonial aphasia...

... rightly calls for in her study of Italy’s “colonial legacies.” Beyond this gesture, the story not only registers specific differences between Youssef and potential readers but also dramatizes the processes that constitute those differences. That is, it points to the economic systems by which the comforts...

... and Bronte imagined they were doing in depicting Creole life, rather than just denouncing their consolidation of a culture of Empire. Like Said, though, Berman seems more interested in colonial representations of otherness than in the "other's" self-representation. In another volume to this impressive work...

..., a mechanism for advancement and social distinction. The curriculum would be reformed many times in the twentieth century and the world is now a very different place. What’s above all obvious in the documentary’s Marseille classroom, and central to the film’s message, is the legacy of French colonialism...

... colonialism and its complex cultural legacy, and which combine cultural interpretation with historical and political analysis. Certainly this collection highlights the need for additional pedagogical resources such as document collections accompanied by critical essays that would encourage the teaching...

... accounts for the protagonist's psycho-sexual complex in terms of a family dynamic of racialized violence, while also illustrating the affective determinants of sadomasochism for the individual and the collectivity. In so deftly tracing the etiology of Claire's psychological schism to the legacy of colonial...

... Historians like Todd Shepard, Françoise Vergès, Malika Rahal, Muriam Halleh Davis, Marnia Lazreg, James MacDougal, and Natalya Vince situate the violence exercised by France within a wider understanding of colonial rule and domination. 4 While acknowledging the legacies and traumas of colonialism...

..., Cinecriture and the Filmic Ethnographic Eye." Feminist Review 96 (2010): 122-26. Martin, Florence. "The Poetics of Memory in Assia Djebar's La Femme sans sepulture: A Study in Paradoxes." Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism. Ed. Alec G. Hargreaves. Oxford: Lexington, 2005.160...

... Lionnet, Fran~oise, "Translating Grief," 277-289 Makward, Christiane, "Cut-throat or Mocking-bird: of Conde's Renewals," 405-20 Mazama, Ama, "Creole in Maryse Conde's Work: the Disordering of the Neo- Colonial Order 377- 90 McKinley, Mary B., "Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre et la dedicace du Tiers Livre...

... entered the French Department at Columbia University at the same time in the fall of 1995. I came to her seminar, "Exotisme et Discours Colonial," out of pure curiosity about the department's new hire, as I had initially planned to focus on the period of French literary history stretching from the fin-de...

... should do in, and for, “French and Francophone studies,” is not divorced from our present world. It is no more reducible to its moral duties or to political agendas. Among academics, the tenacious belief in determinism is one of the most sterile legacies of the twentieth century, and this quasi...

... duree, Djebar explored the entire span of Algeria'S history, from its centuries as a province of the Libyan, Punic, Roman, and Ottoman empires to its 130-year life as a French colony, its fiercely contested independence from France, and its tragic fall into violence in the 1990s. Her novels also call...

... will pave the way for other books that offer a composite picture of the history of French colonialism and its complex cultural legacy, and which combine cultural interpretation with historical and political analysis. Certainly this collection highlights the need for additional pedagogical resources...

... and scholarship. In order to understand France, as well as far-flung French-speaking places, diasporas, cultures, and ideas, broad perspectives ought to be adopted. One has only to think of capitalism, colonialism, slavery, industrialization, and immigration to see how internationally intertwined much...

... and the joint operation planned. The following summer, he and his troops made a halt in Providence—and even on the grounds of the College in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (now Brown University)—for some weeks before marching to Yorktown (and triumphantly back thereafter), leading...

... distance from home. However, if we want to understand not only the political legacy of French writing on the postcolonial world but also that of the colonial world on the transformation of the world of letters and the profile of the author, even fragile stories of colonial authorship such as the two that I...

... to the destructive internalization of racism as one of the most lasting and urgent legacies of French colonialism. Cajou is certainly the most dramatic and sustained of these portraits, and as such has also received the most stringent criticism. Cajou is read primarily as a post-war Mayotte Capecia, as someone who...