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University of Virginia Press Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature (Modern Literature Initiative)

Name: Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature (Modern Literature Initiative)
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Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence authors depict technology as a mediator between them. By providing the first comprehensive study of the representation of technology in relation to colonialism and postcolonialism in francophone literature, Roxanna Curto shows the extent to which the authors promote modernization and social progress.Curto traces this trend in the wake of decolonization, when a series of important francophone African and Caribbean writers began to portray modern technology as a liberating, democratizing force, capable of erasing the hierarchies of the old colonial order and promoting economic development. Beginning with the founders of Négritude Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor and continuing with Frantz Fanon, postindependence novelists such as Ousmane Sembène, and contemporary writers such as Édouard Glissant, the author shows how these francophone writers champion the transfer of technology from the metropolis to the former colonies as a means of integrating their cultures into a global community, thus paving the way for modernization and technological development. Review Inter-tech(s) convincingly tweaks conventional wisdom on the place and meaning of technology in post/colonial societies and forces us to reconsider a number of deeply held assumptions, not the least of which is the long-standing myth of the colonized in the French colonies of sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean as reflexively antitechnological and innately proximate to nature. It reaches in substantial and compelling ways into debates about technological modernity and empire that extend well beyond the disciplinary confines of the francophone post/colonial literature that serves as its primary archive. --Richard Watts, University of Washington, author of Packaging Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World About the Author Roxanna Nydia Curto is Assistant Professor of French and Spanish at the University of Iowa.

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Brand: University of Virginia Press
Colour: White
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813939224
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
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Release Date: 30 August 2016
Listed Since: 18 May 2016

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