Author: Murdoch, Adlai

Source: International Journal of Francophone Studies, Volume 11, Numbers 1-2, 16 June 2008 , pp. 15-32(18)

Publisher: Intellect

Abstract:

This collection of essays probes the resonances of the sixtieth anniversary of some of France's overseas colonies gaining accession to full integration into the metropole as dpartements. This event stands out in that it marks the only occasion in European colonial history where colonies on the verge of transformation were integrated into the political structure of the former colonial power. The compound issues undergirding the ongoing departmental relationship suggest a hierarchical structure still predicated on neocolonial patterns of domination and submission, centre and periphery. From ngritude through antillanit and crolit, the deployment of various discourses of resistance and identity has not foreclosed the large-scale displacement of French Caribbean subjects to France that followed departmentalization in 1946, resulting in new ethnic and community concentrations and a certain creolization of the metropole itself. It is the tensions arising from these intersections of integration, migration and difference that lead us to interrogate the ways in which this process of exchange produces an increasingly pluralized and, perhaps, polarized metropole and its problematization of French principles of universalism.

Keywords: departmentalization; migration; integration; assimilation; Caribbean; Frenchness

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.11.1and2.15_2

Affiliations: 1: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Publication date: 2008-06-16

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