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International Journal of Francophone Studies - Volume 9, Issue 1, 2006
Volume 9, Issue 1, 2006
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Les crivains africains francophones et l'essai: littrature d'ides ou prise de position?
More LessThe first part of this essay analyses the works of African writers between 1900 and 1945 and attempts to establish the extent to which these writings reflect the cultural, pedagogical and political aims and objectives of the French colonizing power. The situation was to change considerably after the Second World War. The establishment of the Union franaise effectively ended the colonial education system and Africans were allowed access to universities. This in turn was to give rise to an output of academic writings, which can be classified under two broad headings: dissertations (and research articles) and essays. The essays published after 1960 tended to be principally concerned with three broad themes: social and political questions, literary criticism, philosophy and the epistemology of human sciences. Having outlined these subject areas, the present article examines the central role played by these essayists in the intellectual debate at that time, commenting in particular on their attitude towards Senghor's established views of Ngritude as well as the opinion of the university institution.
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Essai sur les essais dans la littrature des Antilles au tournant du xxe sicle
More LessThis is an article on essays in French Caribbean literature at the end of the last century. The essay is one of the ambiguous genres of French Caribbean literature. It is frequently practised in the Caribbean in journals and newspapers, autobiographies and novels, short stories and theatre. Whether it appears collectively or individually, is written by one or various authors, the essay offers a loud and far-reaching voice and serves as Caliban's response to the questions of frustration, absence, and silence which are the consequences of slavery in the West Indies. The main concern of the essay at the end of the twentieth century is to create and organize a new Creole reason in politics, history, and literature.
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L'essai africain au fminin: parcours thmatique
Authors: Josefina Bueno Alonso and Inmaculada Daz NarbonaThe expansion of women's literature has heralded a new period within the literary history of North and Sub-Saharan Africa. The writing processes and the themes dealt with by these women authors, particularly since the 1980s, point to a significant change in the total literary output of the new literary generations of the continent. If women's fiction has clearly become a necessary point of reference, from both the production and the reception points of view, it seems appropriate that the important body of non-fictional writings (i.e. essays) that has appeared in recent years should be examined. This article analyses the essays of women authors as well as minority writings that show the basic axes along which the search for identity is constructed, a search marked by the female condition and its postcolonial background. These reflections on female itineraries will hopefully help define and describe the type of discourse which, far from rejecting claims of identity, tries to point out the pitfalls and obstacles it must negotiate today.
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Hagiographie et essai religieux chez Amadou Hampt B
More LessThe religious essay of Hampt B opposes archaism and modernity, rationality and spirituality, tolerance and dogma. His literary topoi, his formulas, are part of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim monotheistic tradition. This article studies three aspects of his work: first, the way knowledge is transmitted from master to disciple; second, the discourse linked to very old generic models such as exegetic commentary or the dissertation; and finally the characteristics of the knowledge transmitted: revelation through numerology; the sacred nature of memory, of the word, and of numbers; the ways, both mystic and ascetic, of attaining knowledge.
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Voice and give voice: dialectics between fiction and history in narratives on the Rwandan genocide
More LessA considerable amount of literature has been produced on the genocide in Rwanda, from historical, political and sociological studies to testimonies, accounts and fiction. While the status of scientific texts is more or less clear, when it comes to fiction and journalism, the situation is much more complex. Often, history and fiction merge. The character of the text's discourse and the narrator's viewpoint are not always obvious and in unison. How does the text function and how does it relate to reality and to history? Which knowledge does it seek to represent and spread? This article examines the relations between fact and fiction in literary and journalistic texts. Each text is located on the continuum between the subjective and the objective.
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J'ai toujours t une personne un peu part: questions Maryse Cond
More LessThis interview concentrates upon Maryse Cond's literary works since the mid-1980s. Referring to Le Cur rire et pleurer (1999), Cond explains her approach to writing accounts of childhood. Parallels are uncovered between the novels Traverse de la Mangrove (1989) and La Belle Crole (1999) and the author speaks of her complex links to her country, as well as discussing her position in relation to other francophone Caribbean authors and their literary theories. In addition, Cond's life in London in the late 1960s is described. The interview also probes the relationship between author and printed text and reveals Cond's conception of the Prix des Amriques insulaires et de la Guyane, a literary prize she co-created in 1999. Finally, the author's projects for the future are outlined.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Guy Austin, Angela Brning, Patrick Crowley, Philip Mosley, Kamila Aitsiselmi, Najib Redouane and Rabia RedouanePostcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film, Roy Armes, (2005) Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 279 pp., ISBN 18008426796 (pbk)
Contrechamps tragiques: Contribution antillaise la thorie littraire, Anne Douaire, (2005) Paris: Presses de l'Universit Paris Sorbonne, 371 pp., ISBN 2840503395 (pbk), 24
Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, H. Adlai Murdoch and Anne Donadey (eds), (2005) Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 282 pp., ISBN 0813027764 (hbk), 65
L'aventure flamande de la Revue Belge: Langues, littratures et cultures dans l'entre-deux-guerres, Reine Meylaerts (2004) Brussels: PIE/Peter Lang, 399 pp., ISBN 9052012199 (pbk)
Mediations et francophonie interculturelle, Lucille Guilbert (ed.), (2004) Quebec: Les Presses de l'Universit Laval, 224 pp., ISBN 2763780946 (pbk)
Quand on refuse on dit non, Ahmadou Kourouma, (2004) Paris: ditions du Seuil, 168 pp., ISBN 202068022X (pbk), 14
Les Funrailles, Rachid Boudjedra, (2003) Paris: ditions Grasset, 287 pp., ISBN 2246632919, 15
Cousine K, Yasmina Khadra, (2004) Paris: Julliard, 106 pp., ISBN 2260015972 (pbk), 14
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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)