LEADER 04696nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910821808903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6750-0 010 $a0-8014-6751-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467516 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102706 035 $a(OCoLC)860715814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10720546 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000915626 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11565764 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000915626 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10868848 035 $a(PQKB)10016420 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138489 035 $a(OCoLC)857850849 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28765 035 $a(DE-B1597)478488 035 $a(OCoLC)948455416 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467516 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138489 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10720546 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681638 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102706 100 $a20121203d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpire of language$b[electronic resource] $etoward a critique of (post)colonial expression /$fLaurent Dubreuil ; translated from the French by David Fieni 210 $aIthaca ;$aLondon $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50356-7 311 $a0-8014-5056-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-229) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $tPart One: Phraseologies -- $t1. (Post)colonial Possessions -- $t2. Haunting and Imperial Doctrine -- $t3. The Revenant Phrase -- $tPart Two: Giving Languages, Taking Speech -- $t4. The Languages of Empire -- $t5. Interdiction within Diction -- $t6. Today: Stigmata and Veils -- $t7. Reinventing Francophonie -- $tPart Three: Disciplining Knowledge -- $t8. Formations and Reformations of Anthropology -- $t9. The Impossible Colonial Science -- $t10. Who Will Become a Theoretician? -- $tAfter the Afterward -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for decades now, yet there is still much to be learned about the sheer force of language in the world in which we live. In Empire of Language, Laurent Dubreuil explores the power-language phenomenon in the context of European and, particularly, French colonialism and its aftermath. Through readings of the colonial experience, he isolates a phraseology based on possession, in terms of both appropriation and haunting, that has persisted throughout the centuries. Not only is this phraseology a legacy of the past, it is still active today, especially in literary renderings of the colonial experience-but also, and more paradoxically, in anticolonial discourse. This phrase shaped the teaching of European languages in the (former) empires, and it tried to configure the usage of those idioms by the "Indigenes." Then, scholarly disciplines have to completely reconsider their discursive strategies about the colonial, if, at least, they attempt to speak up.Dubreuil ranges widely in terms of time and space, from the ancien régime through the twentieth century, from Paris to Haiti to Quebec, from the Renaissance to the riots in the banlieues. He examines diverse texts, from political speeches, legal documents, and colonial treatises to anthropological essays, poems of the Négritude, and contemporary rap, ever attuned to the linguistic strategies that undergird colonial power. Equally conversant in both postcolonial criticism and poststructuralist scholarship on language, but also deeply grounded in the sociohistorical context of the colonies, Dubreuil sets forth the conditions for an authentically postcolonial scholarship, one that acknowledges the difficulty of getting beyond a colonialism-and still maintains the need for an afterward. 606 $aFrench literature$zFrench-speaking countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench language$xPolitical aspects 606 $aPostcolonialism 607 $aFrench-speaking countries$xHistory 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench language$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 676 $a840.9/358 700 $aDubreuil$b Laurent$0616692 701 $aFieni$b David$01605820 701 $aDubreuil$b Laurent$0616692 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821808903321 996 $aEmpire of language$94010861 997 $aUNINA