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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460496003321

Autore

Hiddleston Jane

Titolo

Decolonising the intellectual : politics, culture, and humanism at the end of the French empire / / Jane Hiddleston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-78138-594-7

1-78138-153-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; ; 33

Disciplina

944.081

Soggetti

Humanism - History - 20th century

Decolonization - Social aspects

Decolonization - Social aspects - Africa, French-speaking

Electronic books.

France Intellectual life 20th century

French-speaking countries Intellectual life

France Colonies Africa Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Léopold Sédar Senghor: politician and poet between hybridity and solitude -- Aimé Césaire: from poetic insurrection to humanist ethics -- Frantz Fanon: experiments in collective identity -- Jean El-Moouhoub Amrouche: the universal intellectual? -- Mouloud Feraoun: postcolonial realism, or, the intellectual as witness -- Kateb Yacine: poetry and revolution -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the impossible dilemma facing Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: How could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed?