Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités

In Decolonizing the Academy (2003), we argued that the current university is a liberating space for the transformational of knowledge but simultaneously functions also as a space that reinscribes colonial politics through a variety of departments founded under the principles of maintaining hegemoni...

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Autor Principal: Yaï, Olabiyi
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Publicado: 2019
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spelling cairn-PRESA_197_0149PRESAPrésence Africaine https://shs.cairn.info/revue-presence-africaine-2018-1-page-149?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/presa.197.0149 Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités Yaï, Olabiyi2019 fre Présence Africaine | 197 | 1 | 2019-04-04 | p. 149-169 | 0032-7638 PRESA_19746 In Decolonizing the Academy (2003), we argued that the current university is a liberating space for the transformational of knowledge but simultaneously functions also as a space that reinscribes colonial politics through a variety of departments founded under the principles of maintaining hegemonic politics of former European and American powers. African and Caribbean universities, structured under these models repeat the patterns of dominance instituted and years after independence many have not yet been decolonized. The study of literatures in these institutions repeat these formations in structures despite the work of writer/scholars like Ngugi wa Thiong’o et al in “On the Abolition of the English Department” (1967) which led to the creation of Departments of Literatures and Literary Theories in selected institutions. Regrettably, even African American Studies Departments repeat some of these foundational errors as Sylvia Wynter asserts in “How WE Mistook the Map for the Territory.” This paper examines some of these trajectories and proposes a more advanced paradigm for academic units in the Humanities.Cairn restricted access
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description In Decolonizing the Academy (2003), we argued that the current university is a liberating space for the transformational of knowledge but simultaneously functions also as a space that reinscribes colonial politics through a variety of departments founded under the principles of maintaining hegemonic politics of former European and American powers. African and Caribbean universities, structured under these models repeat the patterns of dominance instituted and years after independence many have not yet been decolonized. The study of literatures in these institutions repeat these formations in structures despite the work of writer/scholars like Ngugi wa Thiong’o et al in “On the Abolition of the English Department” (1967) which led to the creation of Departments of Literatures and Literary Theories in selected institutions. Regrettably, even African American Studies Departments repeat some of these foundational errors as Sylvia Wynter asserts in “How WE Mistook the Map for the Territory.” This paper examines some of these trajectories and proposes a more advanced paradigm for academic units in the Humanities.
author Yaï, Olabiyi
spellingShingle Yaï, Olabiyi
Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités
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author_sort Yaï, Olabiyi
title Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités
title_short Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités
title_full Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités
title_fullStr Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités
title_full_unstemmed Conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités
title_sort conjurer le spectre du grand linguicide : langues-cultures et décolonisation des humanités
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