The Other Hybrid Archipelago

Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean

By:

Peter Hawkins

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Paperback / softback

Series:

After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

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The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of populations that have settled there and the dominant influence of French colonialism. This survey concentrates on the period since the Second World War, when most of the islands achieved independence, except for Reunion and Mayotte, which maintain a regional status within the French Republic. The postcolonial approach suggests certain recurrent themes and preoccupations of the islands' cultures and an appropriate way to define their recent cultural production, while taking account of the burden of their colonial past. The rich cocktail of cultural and linguistic influences surveyed is situated in relation to the contemporary political and social context of the islands and their marginal status within the global economy.

Author Biography:

Peter Hawkins is senior research fellow in the Department of French, University of Bristol.

Release date Australia

February 3rd, 2010

Author

Peter Hawkins

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

224

Series

After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

Dimensions

155x234x17

ISBN-13

9780739116777

Product ID

4736063

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