Francophonie and the Orient French-Asian transcultural crossings (1840-1940)
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 wh...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
©2018©2018, 2018
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Series: | Languages and culture in history
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Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 9462988250 9789462988255 |