
Imagining Métissage: The Politics and Practice of Métissage in the French Colonial Exposition and Ousmane Socé's Mirages de Paris
Je demeure cependant persuadé, malgré les dangers d'une possible confusion, qu'il faut 'oser la métaphoreé … C'est-à-dire entreprendre de poser une question qui est und des fondements de l'interprétation, de la critique, un des modes de la connaissance: comment un homme, une société, choisissent-ils de 'se représenter par la meétaphore', comment trouvent-ils des formes, des objets particuliers devant lesquels ils se disent dans un élan d'imagination ou de conformisme: 'je suis ça'?
[Nonetheless, I remain persuaded, in spite of the dangers of a possible confusion, that one must 'dare to take up the metaphor' … That is, to undertake asking a question which is one of the foundations of interpretation, of criticism, one of the modes of knowledge: how a man, how a society, chooses to represent itself through metaphor, how it finds forms, particular objects, before which it tells itself, in a burst of imagination or conformity, 'that is me'?]
(de Baecque, 1993, p. 15)
Aimer, c'est pouvoir s'imaginer. [To love, is to be able to imagine oneself.]
(Socé, 1964 [1937], p. 91)
[Nonetheless, I remain persuaded, in spite of the dangers of a possible confusion, that one must 'dare to take up the metaphor' … That is, to undertake asking a question which is one of the foundations of interpretation, of criticism, one of the modes of knowledge: how a man, how a society, chooses to represent itself through metaphor, how it finds forms, particular objects, before which it tells itself, in a burst of imagination or conformity, 'that is me'?]
(de Baecque, 1993, p. 15)
Aimer, c'est pouvoir s'imaginer. [To love, is to be able to imagine oneself.]
(Socé, 1964 [1937], p. 91)
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Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: University of California, Los Angeles
Publication date: January 1, 2002
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