French Post-Colonial Studies: A Background Reading and Perception

The Subaltern Studies appeared on the critical scene as a reaction to the Anglo-Saxon discourse, producing new cognitive, intellectual and historical systems that aims at re-reading the colonial epistemic achievement in accordance  with approach advocated by in the intelligentsia of the former  colonies. In contrast to this kind of studies, the postcolonial approach in the Francophone space have distorted Subaltern Studies  claiming that they are  carnivalistic  research  that seeks to take revenge on the Center, not being able to keep pace with the process of technology and modernity. This research paper aims to explain the foundations of the French Centrism  and its criticism  post-colonial studies—studies that  deconstruct colonial discourse and its transcendent view, and  attempt to undermine the authority and domination of the colonial text that has been unable to liberate itself from the imperial thought and its representations of the ego and the other, and the culture of difference and alterity.


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The Subaltern Studies appeared on the critical scene as a reaction to the Anglo-Saxon discourse, producing new cognitive, intellectual and historical systems that aims at re-reading the colonial epistemic achievement in accordance  with approach advocated by in the intelligentsia of the former  colonies. In contrast to this kind of studies, the postcolonial approach in the Francophone space have distorted Subaltern Studies  claiming that they are  carnivalistic  research  that seeks to take revenge on the Center, not being able to keep pace with the process of technology and modernity. This research paper aims to explain the foundations of the French Centrism  and its criticism  post-colonial studies—studies that  deconstruct colonial discourse and its transcendent view, and  attempt to undermine the authority and domination of the colonial text that has been unable to liberate itself from the imperial thought and its representations of the ego and the other, and the culture of difference and alterity.


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