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More than a Turn?
With the “colonial turn” in French studies now on the wane, this article attempts to assess its contributions. It suggests that one of the main thrusts of the “colonial turn” has been the reconsideration of the “Republic” as a framework for understanding modern French history: the colonies being the place where the Republic “contradicted itself” or, on the contrary, where its deepest tensions revealed themselves. While this perspective has been essential in underlining the importance of race in modern French history, it can be regarded as no more than an attempt to write a history of “France” enriched by the imperial perspective: indigenous worlds appear only secondarily in these analysis of the “imperial Republic.” This shortcoming echoes other criticisms that can be addressed to the “colonial turn” in French studies: the ahistorical use of the category of the “colonial” in the singular and the lack of satisfactory analysis of the “postcolonial.”
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Introduction: Special Cluster: Thinking the Postcolonial in French
The very word \"postcolonial\" has become ubiquitous in French political and academic discourse in the past ten years, and especially since 2005, a year marked by the publication of the \"Manifeste des indigènes de la République,\" the passage of a law on \"French repatriates,\" Article 4 of which asked teachers and textbooks to \"acknowledge and recognize... the positive role of the French presence overseas, especially in North Africa,\" and the massive riots of October and November.1 With these events, the notion of the \"postcolonial\" became associated with a score of different debates over the forms of discrimination in French society, the profound but often silenced presence of race in the national narrative, the writing of French history, and the critique of the concept and practices of francophonie being among the most notable. By the same token she contends that there is not a single French postcoloniality (or a unified francophone literary canon or political genealogy), but rather a variety of situations that call for an elastic and multidimensional critical practice.
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