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

• Autore: Hiddleston Jane
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 944.081
• Soggetto topico: Humanism - History - 20th century; Decolonization - Social aspects; Decolonization - Social aspects - Africa, French-speaking
• Soggetto geografico: France Intellectual life 20th century; French-speaking countries Intellectual life; France Colonies Africa Intellectual life
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Decolonising the intellectual
• ISBN: 1-78138-594-7; 1-78138-153-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460496003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; ; 33.