| Cultural Crossings / À La Croisée Des Cultures: Negotiating Identities in Francophone and Anglophone Pacific Literatures / de la Négociation Des Ident Contributor(s): Ramsay, Raylene (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9052016550 ISBN-13: 9789052016559 Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - History | Europe - France - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 2010038996 |
| Series: Nouvelle Poetique Comparatiste / New Comparative Poetics |
| Physical Information: 301 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hitherto undiscovered yet fundamental historical and literary texts from the Pacific provide the subject matter of this collection of essays which sets out to explore the new forms of writing and hybrid identities emerging from both past and contemporary cultural contact and exchange in the 'South Seas'. This is also a weaving of the connections between Francophone and Anglophone writers long separated by colonial history. Luis Cardoso, writing in Portuguese from East Timor offers further points of contrast. The places of encounter - the beaches of Tahiti, the retelling of the texts of oral tradition, indigenous mastery of writing and appropriation of Western technology, the construction of contemporary Pacific anthologies or emerging post-colonial writing and translation - are sites of interaction and mixing that also involve negotiations of mana or power. From Pierre Loti's mythical and feminised Tahitians to D w Gorod 's silenced women, the outcomes of such negotiations are dynamic and different syncretisms. Two chapters reexamine the theoretical concept of hybridity from these Pacific perspectives. Les articles publi s dans le pr sent recueil explorent les nouvelles formes d' criture et les identit s hybrides issues du creuset des Mers du Sud. Relativement inconnus, les textes au coeur de ces articles n'en sont pas moins les oeuvres fondatrices de la r gion du Pacifique Sud dont ils constituent la trame historique et litt raire. Longtemps tenus l' cart les uns des autres par l'histoire coloniale de la r gion, les textes d'auteurs francophones et anglophones s'enchev trent et se recoupent en de multiples domaines. La reprise des textes de tradition orale, l'appropriation autochtone des technologies occidentales, la cr ation d'anthologies contemporaines et l' mergence d'une litt rature postcoloniale, sont autant de sites d'interactions et de convergence qui exigent une n gociation permanente entre les pouvoirs et mana en pr sence. C'est une nouvelle facette du concept d'hybridit que nous proposent ces tudes de la r gion Pacifique. |
