scholarly journals Myths of Authenticity and Cultural Performance: Breton Identity in the Poetry Anthology, 1830–2000

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
David Evans
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Cultural Affinity

This article examines the various constructions of Breton identity in twelve anthologies of poetry revealing three broad conceptual phases: celebration of an essential ethno-cultural otherness which nonetheless belongs within the French Republic (1830–1918), calls for independence which harness pan-Celtic or postcolonial discourses (1919–71), and a playful, performative notion of identity based on cultural affinity, inclusive of incomers (1976–2000). I focus on strategies of editorial framing which, in each phase, insist on the apartness, and the authenticity, of Breton expression. These anthological, quasi-anthropological projects both anticipate and encourage the reader's touristic gaze, betraying anxieties about Brittany's relationship to the nation within which it must negotiate a place. These negotiations are played out in texts which, in their use of the French language and French poetic forms, operate a constant dialogue with the national tradition, a mode of self-questioning to which the poem is particularly well suited.

Topography of Post-Soviet Nationalism: The Provinces—the Capital—the West

Slavic Review ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Parts
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Cultural Elite ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Postimperial Identity ◽  
Soviet Nationalism ◽  
High Literature

The cultural myth of the provinces provides the contemporary cultural elite with a semiotic apparatus for formulating Russia's new, postimperial identity. Today, cultural production locates true Russianness outside newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow. In mass culture, the traditional privileging of the center over the backward provinces gives way to the view of the provinces as a repository of national tradition and moral strength. Conversely, high literature and art-house films provide an alternative, harshly critical image of them. In both cases, a particular concept of Russianness is negotiated, one in which the provinces play a central role. Ultimately, both redirect nationalist discourse away from the deeply unsatisfying model of Russia versus the west and instead offer a hermetic national identity based on an “us versus us,” rather than “us versus them,” model.

scholarly journals Postcolonialism, Identity, and the French Language in St. Lucia

2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Aonghas St. Hilaire
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Language Use ◽  
French Language ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
High Status ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Third Language ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Cultural Affinity

Examines attitudes toward cultural identification with the French language, recently increased in education, relative to English and Kwéyòl, among St Lucians, through a postcolonial conceptual framework. Author contextualizes this within St Lucia's history, as first French and later British colony, and relates it to the multiplicity, characteristic of St Lucia (and Caribbean) Creole identity, and a connected fluidity in language use. Through a rural and Castries sample, he further studies the evaluations of St Lucians of French, English, and Kwéyòl, in relation to their sense of cultural and social relevance and affinity of and with these languages. He shows how English is seen by most as high-status and important for St Lucians, especially for upward and outward mobility, while especially for St Lucia's national identity Kwéyòl is also valued by most, despite its recent partial waning. French, recently stimulated as main second or third language, is seen as quite important, and should according to a majority of the sample (especially in Castries) be learned more by St Lucians, and is seen as more relevant than Spanish. Author points out how this is related to a strong cultural affinity St Lucians sense with nearby Martinique, practical connections (traveling, migrating) to Martinique, or French/Martinican tourists in St Lucia, as well as to French's similarity to Kwéyòl, thus possibly helping to bolster Kwéyòl's status.

scholarly journals French Regime’s ‘Francisation’ as a Paracolonial Policy: A Critical Study of Language, Identity and Assimilation in ‘French’ Morocco

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Boulahnane
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
French Protectorate ◽  
The Way

This article explores the colonial role of the French language in assimilating the Moroccan subjects during the French ‘protectorate’ in 1912-1956 Morocco. Probing into the instrumental efforts made via the colonizer’s language entails investigating the way the colonizer sought to racially segregate the Moroccan subjects, ascertain inaccessibility to religion, and instill the colonial language and the associated foreign ‘elitist’ values via the educational policies initially established within the postcolonial project. French language reflects a colonialism, of which the nature was racial, religious, linguistic, and identity based. The ensuing postcolonial effects of the curriculum adopted during the ‘protectorate’ have given birth to the surviving outcomes of Francization and the need to adopt French—a language that is foreign, ‘prestigious,’ ‘elitist,’ and practical in the job market. This article illustrates the ideological role of the French language in channeling a timeless, parallel colonialism via certain long-term strategies informed by colonialism and aimed towards a postcolonial project in post-independent Francophone Morocco

Postcolonialism, Identity, and the French Language in St. Lucia

2008 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aonghas St. Hilaire
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Language Use ◽  
French Language ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
High Status ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Third Language ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Cultural Affinity

Examines attitudes toward cultural identification with the French language, recently increased in education, relative to English and Kwéyòl, among St Lucians, through a postcolonial conceptual framework. Author contextualizes this within St Lucia's history, as first French and later British colony, and relates it to the multiplicity, characteristic of St Lucia (and Caribbean) Creole identity, and a connected fluidity in language use. Through a rural and Castries sample, he further studies the evaluations of St Lucians of French, English, and Kwéyòl, in relation to their sense of cultural and social relevance and affinity of and with these languages. He shows how English is seen by most as high-status and important for St Lucians, especially for upward and outward mobility, while especially for St Lucia's national identity Kwéyòl is also valued by most, despite its recent partial waning. French, recently stimulated as main second or third language, is seen as quite important, and should according to a majority of the sample (especially in Castries) be learned more by St Lucians, and is seen as more relevant than Spanish. Author points out how this is related to a strong cultural affinity St Lucians sense with nearby Martinique, practical connections (traveling, migrating) to Martinique, or French/Martinican tourists in St Lucia, as well as to French's similarity to Kwéyòl, thus possibly helping to bolster Kwéyòl's status.

French Language and Literature (Including Provençal)

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1295-1299
Author(s):  
H. Carrington Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
Language And Literature

Distance effect on sentence comprehension in French language

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Takahashi ◽  
N. Maionchi-Pino ◽  
A. Magnan ◽  
R. Kawashima
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Distance Effect ◽  
French Language

JUDICIARY AND JUDICIARY OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NATIONAL MENTALITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-97
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Byrkovych
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Constitutional Right

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to identify the fundamental values of the Ukrainian people, on the basis of which not only his mentality, but also all national-state institutions, including institutions of justice and justice, as well as to identify trends of influence of these values on the further development of legal foundations of the judiciary and justice of Ukraine. Method. The methodological basis of the study was the combination of principles and methods of scientific knowledge. For the objectivity of the research, a set of general scientific, special-legal, special-historical and philosophical methods of scientific knowledge was used. Results. At the current stage of reforming the institutions of the judiciary and the judiciary, the notion of fair justice, which is formed on the basis of popular national culture, plays an important role. Given the functioning of the modern Constitutional Court of Ukraine, whose representatives are formed by delegation to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the judiciary, this institution needs radical reform as it has repeatedly made political rather than constitutional decisions. Scientific novelty. Based on the analysis of the national tradition of justice, it is established that the Constitutional Court should be formed by public organizations, which are formed by legal experts. There are several higher scientific institutions in Ukraine which have departments, constitutional law research institutes. Their representatives should delegate the best experts in the constitutional right to competitive selection to fill vacancies in the constitutional court. Practical importance. The results of the study can be used in further historical and legal studies, preparation of special courses.

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