1st Edition
Francophonie en Orient Aux croisements France-Asie (1840-1940)
By Mathilde Kang
Copyright 2017
222 Pages
by
Amsterdam University Press
This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures. It raises a number of provocative questions, including whether colonisation is the ultimate requirement for a culture's being defined as francophone, or how... Read more
Introduction, I La France aux portes de Cathay, II L’afff?irmation de la présence française en Asie, III L’essaimage français : le cas de la Chine, IV Naissance de la littérature de cohabitation, V Les croisements France-Asie : le cas du corpus français, Conclusion : vers une francophonie de cohabitation, Bibliographie selective, Index thématique
Biography
Mathilde Kang is Lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Born in Shanghai, China, she has received her education in Québec in Canada. The multicultural course of her life and her strictly French-language education have led her to an interest in studying cultures made up of several mixed influences. Her main interest is the spreading of French culture outside Europe
