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kobvindex_HPB1075113679
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9789048540273
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9048540275
Series Statement:
Languages and culture in history
Uniform Title:
Francophonie en Orient.
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction: for a Francophonie of cohabitation; I. France at the gates of Cathay; Macau and Canton: the first European fringes; The intrinsic links between China and Indochina; The ramifications of the French presence; II. The affirmation of the French presence in Asia; 'Paris of the East'; Guangzhouwan: the colonies' colony; Modes of colonization in Asia; III. French offshoots: the case of China; Genesis of the first Francophones in Asia; Francophone manifestations; The gestations of a literature of cohabitation; IV. The birth of a literature of cohabitation
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Colonial literature vs. literature of cohabitationPastiches of French masterpieces; Literatures of French expression; V. France-Asia crossings: the case of the French corpus; A literature of the intimate nourished by the East; The oriental 'self' in Loti and Claudel; The Oriental fortune of Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé; Conclusion: towards a Francophonie of cohabitation; Selective Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kang, Mathilde, 1963- Francophonie and the Orient. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2018 ISBN 9462988250
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789462988255
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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