Doublures, restes et rapports : les corps entre méconnaissances et mises

Authors

Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Tulane University

Abstract

If the body finds a place in our discourse, it is only to justify what we abhor and to provide us with alibis. However, some postcolonial discourses generate misunderstanding via two major omissions: on the one hand, they steer away from a critique of the political economy of the scholar’s own body and its relationship to economic power; on the other hand, they fail to explore what can be said about the body conceived as remains and as residue. One cannot properly conceive of the body as a substance but, rather, as a relation —a relation to what it is not and, more importantly, a relation between the critic who raises the question

Recommended Citation

Bidima, Jean-Godefroy (2006) "Doublures, restes et rapports : les corps entre méconnaissances et mises," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 66: No. 1, Article 11.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol66/iss1/11