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Pour une nouvelle politique des études littéraires francophones

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Summary:	During the past decades, francophone literary studies emerged on the international academic field. This paper aims to look back at a few aspects of these developments. Our hypothesis is that these studies first contributed to build a representation of “francophone literature” very close to the diplomatic “Francophonie” project, then tried to perform both theoretically and politically (our examples will be the “gravitational model” and the postcolonial paradigm). The reflux of the “overlooking position” which defines these approaches brings us to question the new ways to commit literary studies with politics (in Stanley Fish and Yves Citton), by focusing on the rhetorical and ideological operations in the discourses about literature.
Subject:	Theory of literature Études francophones History of Francophonie Histoire de la Francophonie Politique des études littéraires Théorie littéraire Francophone studies Politics of literary studies
Country:	Portugal
Document type:	journal article
Access type:	Open
Associated institution:	Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses
Language:	French
Origin:	Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses

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Summary:	During the past decades, francophone literary studies emerged on the international academic field. This paper aims to look back at a few aspects of these developments. Our hypothesis is that these studies first contributed to build a representation of “francophone literature” very close to the diplomatic “Francophonie” project, then tried to perform both theoretically and politically (our examples will be the “gravitational model” and the postcolonial paradigm). The reflux of the “overlooking position” which defines these approaches brings us to question the new ways to commit literary studies with politics (in Stanley Fish and Yves Citton), by focusing on the rhetorical and ideological operations in the discourses about literature.