Universality After Universalism

On Francophone Literatures of the Present

• Author(s): Markus Messling,
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Pages: 161
• ISBN_10: 3111129616
  ISBN_13: 9783111129617
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Romance Languages (Other) , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / African , Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American , Literary Criticism / European / French , Literary Criticism / Modern / 21st Century , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism ,

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The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by its colonial history; today, it is also the target of nationalist attacks. What remains of it? Now available in English, Markus Messling's critically acclaimed study shows how contemporary Francophone literatures seek, after European universalism, approaches to a new universality, without which knowledge and justice cannot be organised in world society.

With a foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne