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The
other hybrid archipelago : introduction to the literatures and
cultures of the francophone Indian ocean / Peter Hawkins. - Lanham
(Maryland) : Lexington books, 2010. -
XV-207 p. ;
23 cm. - (After the empire : The francophone world
and
postcolonial France).
ISBN
978-0-7391-1677-7
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It
may be as a result of the beauty of these islands settings, but there
is a flavour of redemption in this literary culture.
(…)
Studying
this literature is potentially a rewarding and life-affirming
experience (…) ; and it carries within it some
possible
lessons for the future of our beleaguered planet.
☐ Introduction,
p. XIV |
NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR : The Other Hybrid Archipelago
presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean
islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar,
Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that
has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of
populations that have settled there and the dominant influence of
French colonialism. This survey concentrates on the period since the
Second World War, when most of the islands achieved independence,
except for Reunion and Mayotte, which maintain a regional status within
the French Republic. The postcolonial approach suggests certain
recurrent themes and preoccupations of the islands' cultures and an
appropriate way to define their recent cultural production, while
taking account of the burden of their colonial past. The rich cocktail
of cultural and linguistic influences surveyed is situated in relation
to the contemporary political and social context of the islands and
their marginal status within the global economy.
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Peter Hawkins is Senior Research Fellow in French
at the University of Bristol, UK, having retired from his full-time
post in 2008. He taught courses on Postcolonial Literatures in French
for many years and held temporary visiting posts at the University of
Benin, Nigeria from 1977-79 and the University of La Réunion
from 1994-97. He was the first president of ASCALF (Association for the
Study of Caribbean and African Literature in French), founded in 1989,
and organised many internationally-supported annual conferences in this
context at the French Institute in London between 1988-1993 and
1997-2000. (…) ASCALF was re-launched as SFPS, the Society
for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, in 2002. He has collaborated
extensively with colleagues at the Universities of Mauritius and
Reunion and has recently concentrated his attention on the Francophone
literatures of the Indian Ocean region. |
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| CONTENTS |
Foreword
Introduction
- Chapter 1,
The
Francophone Indian Ocean
- Chapter 2,
Postcolonial
Perspectives
- Chapter 3,
Critical
Strategies
- Chapter 4,
Madagascar
- Chapter 5,
Mauritius
- Chapter 6,
La
Reunion
- Chapter 7,
The
Comoros, the Seychelles
- Chapter 8,
Trouble
in Paradise
Bibliography
Discography
Index
About the author |
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| COMPLÉMENT
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE |
- Peter
Hawkins, « The other hybrid archipelago :
introduction
to the literatures and cultures of the francophone Indian
ocean », Lanham (Maryland) : Lexington
books, 2007
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- Peter
Hawkins, « Translation and its others: postcolonial
linguistic strategies of writers from the Francophone Indian
Ocean » in Intimate
Enemies: Translation in Francophone Contexts, edited by
Kathryn Batchelor and Claire Bisdorff, Liverpool university press, 2013
- Peter
Hawkins et Annette Lavers (éd.), « Protée
noir : essais sur la littérature francophone de
l'Afrique
noire et des Antilles », Paris :
L'Harmattan, 1992
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| mise-à-jour : 15
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