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Frontmatter -- Table des matières -- Introduction -- I. La France aux portes de Cathay -- II. L'affirmation de la présence française en Asie -- III. L'essaimage français: le cas de la Chine -- IV. Naissance de la littérature de cohabitation -- V. Les croisements France-Asie: le cas du corpus français -- Conclusion: vers une francophonie de cohabitation -- Bibliographie sélective -- Index thématique
This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonization but nonetheless were steeped in French civilization in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures. It raises a number of provocative questions, including whether colonization is the ultimate requirement for a culture's being defined as francophone, or how to think about francophone literatures that emerge from Asian nations that were historically free from French domination. The ultimate result is a redefining of the Asian francophone heritage according to new, transnational paradigms