(Post)colonial possessions -- Haunting and imperial doctrine -- The revenant phrase -- The languages of empire -- Interdiction within diction -- Today : stigmata and veils -- Reinventing francophonie -- Formations and reformations of anthropology -- The impossible colonial science -- Who will become a theoretician?
Summary
The relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for decades, yet there is still much to be learned about the sheer force of language in the world in which we live. In this book, the author explores the power-language phenomenon in the context of European and, particularly, French colonialism and its aftermath
