Francophonie and the Orient : French-Asian Transcultural Crossings (1840-1940)

• Tác giả: Mathilde Kang
• Ngôn ngữ: eng ; fre
• ISBN-13: 978-9048540273
• ISBN-13: 978-9462988255
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 840.9 Literatures of Romance languages French literature
• Thông tin xuất bản: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 246141
• Chủ đề: 1. Oriental literature (French)--History and criticism; 2. LITERARY CRITICISM--European; 3. Oriental literature (French)

Tóm tắt

This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures. It raises a number of provocative questions, including whether colonisation is the ultimate requirement for a culture's being defined as francophone, or how to think about francophone literatures that emerge from Asian nations that were historically free from French domination. The ultimate result is a redefining of the Asian francophone heritage according to new, transnational paradigms.