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International Journal of Francophone Studies - Volume 8, Issue 3, 2005
Volume 8, Issue 3, 2005
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Oceanic peoples in dialogue: French Polynesian literature as transnational link
More LessMa'ohi people's transnational ties with other Oceanic communities have been severed due to colonial and imperial practices that have separated the Pacific into three orientalizing spaces, namely Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia and imposed their colonial languages thereupon. Since much of Ma'ohi writing is in French, or the local Franitien, French Polynesia remains marginalized from anglophone Oceania, and Ma'ohi artistic, cultural, and literary production remains absent from Oceanic criticism. In the Pacific, Oceanic discourse reveals an Oceanic consciousness, which entails recovering alternate histories, reading Oceania based on its diverse cultural contexts, privileging indigenous epistemologies, and decentring western authoritative and patriarchal discourses. Drawing upon Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic and Tongan intellectual Epeli Hau'ofa's ideas, this essay views transnationalism through a metaphoric lens using Ma'ohi literature as the va'a or canoe, to re-bridge Oceanic peoples in a transnational context.
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Historical colonial literature and New Caledonia, 18531945 or how a settlement colony generates hagiographic writings
More LessNew Caledonia's exploration and settlement produced a wide array of historical essays both within and without the colony. Which vision(s) did these essays provide of the emerging New Caledonian society? Does the dichotomy between conditions of life in New Caledonia and the vision provided thereof result from the historical approaches adopted or the topics being discussed? While these essays reveal a keen interest for New Caledonia's original inhabitants, they also reflect a quest for colonial legitimacy and justification in their othering of New Caledonia's native populations as primitive and uncivilized.
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From exclusion and alienation to a multi-racial community:The image of the mtis in New Caledonian literature
By Peter BrownIn her 2005 New Year's greetings, Marie-Nolle Thmereau, the President of the New Caledonian government, expressed her confidence in the future of her multiracial country, echoing the recognition of New Caledonia's demographic make-up in official discourse since the Noumea Accord (1998). This view of New Caledonian society has not, however, always been so optimistic or encompassing. The island's mixed population of some 230,000 has given rise over the years to social and political tensions. In this context, representations of Self and Other found in the island's literature, particularly as they concern the historically highly contentious issue of biological and cultural interaction, provide valuable perspectives on this subject, enabling us to trace the evolution of local attitudes to the question of mtissage and acquire a broader vision of the lived experience of the island's population.
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Serving the master: cannibalism and transoceanic representations of cultural identity
More LessThe use of the term cannibale as a keyword in the titles of Maryse Cond's Histoire de la femme cannibale and Paul Bloc's Les Confidences d'un cannibale attracts attention and solicits immediate images of alterity; the term cannibal, however, is a product of European imperialism and its implications function as a means of justifying colonialism. Within each text, cannibalism is not an action in which the characters actually engage, but rather a trope of identity assigned to them by their oppressors; the cannibalism is not physical, but rather cultural and is perpetuated by the very people who accuse them of cannibalism. For the protagonists of Bloc's and Cond's novels intimate contact with Europeans is part of daily life, yet these intercultural relationships create difficulties for the two main characters, making them victims of cultural cannibalism. An examination of the complex ironies joining the trope of cannibalism and racial, sexual, and cultural identity within these two novels reveals similarities between the Pacific and the Atlantic colonial experiences, and shows that the literary representation of cannibalism in both works serves as a metaphor not only of cultural and sexual domination, but also of subversion and liberation.
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Book Reviews
Les Mots du bled. Cration contemporaine en langues maternelles, les artistes ont la parole, Dominique Caubet (ed.), (2004) Paris: L'Harmattan, 237 pp., ISBN 2-7475-6249-2 (pbk), 20
Colonial Cinema and Imperial France 19191939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths, David Henry Slavin (2001) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, xv + 300 pp., ISBN 0-8018-6616-2 (hbk), 32
Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel, Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen (2003) DeKalb, IL: Southeast Asia Publications, 239 pp., ISBN 1-891134-26-4 (pbk), 19.95
Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy (eds), (2003) London: Arnold, 305 pp., ISBN 0-340-80801-2 (hbk), 50, 0-340-80802-0 (pbk), 16.99
Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean, Valrie Orlando (2003) La Lanham, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Lexington Books, 197 pp., ISBN 0-7391-0563-9 (pbk), 25
Le Creuset des cultures: la littrature antillaise, Jean Faustman (2004) New York: Peter Lang, 138 pp., ISBN 0-8204-6732-4 (hbk),39, 54.95, 55
Cacosme littraire. La fonction du personnage amricain dans le roman hatien partir de 1915, Jacques-Raphal Georges (2004) New York: Peter Lang, 179 pp., ISBN 0-8204-6196 (hbk), 36.40, 61.95, 52
Portrait du dcolonis arabo-musulman et de quelques autres, Albert Memmi (2004) Paris: Gallimard, 168 pp., ISBN 2070773779 (pbk), 15
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 26 (2023)
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Volume 25 (2022)
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Volume 24 (2021)
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Volume 23 (2020)
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Volume 22 (2019)
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Volume 21 (2018)
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Volume 20 (2017)
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Volume 19 (2016)
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Volume 18 (2015)
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Volume 17 (2014)
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Volume 16 (2013)
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Volume 15 (2012 - 2013)
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Volume 14 (2011)
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Volume 13 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 12 (2009)
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Volume 11 (2008)
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Volume 10 (2007)
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Volume 9 (2006)
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Volume 8 (2005)
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Volume 7 (2004)
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Volume 6 (2003)
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Volume 5 (2003)
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Volume 4 (2001 - 2002)