By Michel Serres, Assia Djebar, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Jean-Loup Amselle, André Benhaim, Karl Britto, Jocelyn Dakhlia, Alec Hargreaves, Yvonne Hsieh, Mireille Le Breton, Trevor Merrill, Kathy Richman, Mireille Rosello, Haun Saussy, Tyler Stovall, Jennifer L

Regardless of the lack of the French Empire, France and its former colonies are nonetheless certain by way of a standard heritage. With the hot international merchandising of la Francophonie, the relation among some of the constituencies of the French-speaking areas of the area is reexamined and debated during this booklet, in the course of the dialog among students facing diversified texts and contexts that current the colonial touch and its imprint. The e-book illustrates how, in France and in its different worlds, that touch, its repercussions, and its reminiscence are lived and expressed this present day in numerous textual representations.
The historic touch among France and its different worlds has given beginning to new different types of cross-cultural expressions within the arts, in literature, and in aesthetics, constructing interrelations and producing appropriations from either side of the Hexagon frontier, highlighting the fluidity and the permeability of its cultural borders. The e-book subtext tells that the frontier among France and its different worlds is not any extra an unshakable geographical, political, and cultural restrict, yet fairly a line that has develop into cellular, fluctuating, and permeable, and throughout which currents, principles, sensitivities, and creativity are expressed, bearing testimony to energy and variety but in addition to a cross-fertilization of cultures and societies (re) crossing or assembly at that line.
Seen from this latter point of view, the booklet comes additionally as an interrogation of the inclusiveness or exclusiveness of the phrases francophone and Francophonie, and, at an instructional point, a mutual exclusion of French and Francophone reports.