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Colonial archives let the voices of the colonizers be heard more than those of the colonized. From the analysis of precise documents - the archives produced by European actors - the purpose of this article is to bring to light two inverse processes. On the one hand, one that made the “indigenous” voices inaudible, and on the other, one through which certain African actors have tried to regain their agency by making their voices audible in return.
Keywords: sociolinguistics, sociolinguistique, voice, voix, colonial archives, archives coloniales, Afrique de l'Ouest, Western Africa
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Keywords: Marron, Juminer Bertène, Maquis, Bouadjio Victor, Histoire, Mémoire, Juminer Bertène, Bouadjio Victor
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The issues involved in remembering slavery have taken on worldwide significance. This reflection deals with initiatives to heritagize the remembrance of slavery in Bordeaux (France) and Port-au-Prince (Haiti). It is based on an interpretation of the results from our 2013 fieldwork investigations in Bordeaux and Port-au-Prince, along with participant observations and archival research. Implied is the fact that the heritage of slavery remembered in Bordeaux represents a therapy for the moral stigmatization and contributes toward promoting “living better together” in a society which is undergoing, more and more, a process of creolization. In Port-au-Prince that heritage is, rather, one that speaks of victimization, protests and recognition; it is, in fact, at a crossroad between a desire to mourn over slavery and the affirmation of greatness on the part of the people of Haiti in order to understand their social environment.
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The distinctiveness of Quebec postmodernism can be seen in the relationship of theoretical, critical and fictive discourses. On this basis, the author describes the principle axes which define Quebec postmodernism today, notably, experimental writing, the questioning of History, feminism, nihilism and heterogeneity. The analysis of this last concept in Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues demonstrates how the novel addresses contemporary issues of marginal behaviour and of ethnic, racial and sexual identity.
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AbstractIf Braudel's idea of a grammar of civilizations is to be taken more seriously than it was in the book which used it as a title, the shared basic components of civilizational patterns must be defined more precisely. The working hypothesis formulated by M. Hodgson – that civilizations are distinguished not so much by their constituent elements as by the relative weight and the particular interrelations of these elements – can be taken as a guideline. The paper explores several approaches to this problematic. Civilizations can (with reference to the argument adumbrated by Durkheim and Mauss) be analyzed as different ways of combining cultural, political and economic dimensions. They can also, when understood in terms of longue durée dynamics, be approached through closer examination of the elementary structures of traditions; here Hodgson's suggestions are particularly useful. Finally, civilizations appear – following a line of interpretation pioneered by S. N. Eisenstadt – as frameworks for long-term transformations of relations between the cultural, institutional and organizational levels of societies.
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