Empire of Language : : Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression / / Laurent Dubreuil.
The 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 contex...
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Dubreuil, Laurent, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Empire of Language : Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression / Laurent Dubreuil. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part One: Phraseologies -- 1. (Post)colonial Possessions -- 2. Haunting and Imperial Doctrine -- 3. The Revenant Phrase -- Part Two: Giving Languages, Taking Speech -- 4. The Languages of Empire -- 5. Interdiction within Diction -- 6. Today: Stigmata and Veils -- 7. Reinventing Francophonie -- Part Three: Disciplining Knowledge -- 8. Formations and Reformations of Anthropology -- 9. The Impossible Colonial Science -- 10. Who Will Become a Theoretician? -- After the Afterward -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) French language Political aspects. French literature French-speaking countries History and criticism. Postcolonialism. Early American & Colonial History. Europe. Literary Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. bisacsh Fieni, David. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801450563 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801467516 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801467516 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801467516/original |
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