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Author Hiddleston, Jane, author.

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

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)
Series Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 33
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary This volume 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?
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Subject Humanism -- History -- 20th century.
Decolonization -- Social aspects.
Decolonization -- Social aspects -- Africa, French-speaking.
France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
French-speaking countries -- Intellectual life.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Decolonization -- Social aspects
French colonies
Humanism
Intellectual life
Africa https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3
French-speaking Africa
France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
French-speaking countries
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: 9781781380321 1781380325 (DLC) 2014466608 (OCoLC)870426398
ISBN 9781781381533 (electronic bk.)
1781381534 (electronic bk.)
9781781385944 (electronic bk.)
1781385947 (electronic bk.)
9781781380321 (hbk.)
1781380325 (hbk.)

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