Decolonising the Intellectual: Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire

by Jane Hiddleston

Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. 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? Figures such as Senghor, C (c)saire, Fanon, Amrouche, Feraoun and Kateb were all educated, indeed immersed, in French culture and language, yet they intervened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781380325
• ISBN13: 9781781380321
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"