Direct Flights and Stop-Overs

[...]theoretical Frenchness—rightly—is decreasingly an affair of the French alone, especially in North-American universities where, with an ever-greater frequency, research and teaching positions in French Studies are labeled under the rubric of "Francophone Studies." [...]there is an egre...

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Published in:SubStance 2003-01, Vol.32 (1), p.100-109
Main Author: Wall, Anthony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American philosophy
Brazilian culture
British culture
Dialogism
Exports
French literature
Internet
Language
Passageways
Philosophers
Ports of entry
Study abroad
Universities
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Summary:[...]theoretical Frenchness—rightly—is decreasingly an affair of the French alone, especially in North-American universities where, with an ever-greater frequency, research and teaching positions in French Studies are labeled under the rubric of "Francophone Studies." [...]there is an egregious lack of cross-fertilization between France and Quebec in relation to Bakhtin—a situation that is both similar to, and different from, the lack of communication observed in relation to French and American Bakhtins. [...]the lack of communication in theory between English-speaking North America and France suggests that Quebec is not a passive sort of culturalZwischenstation or filtering plant for all those crazy French ideas that work their way into the Anglo-American academy. Since space will not allow me to develop the role of the port of entry in this brief sketch of "passageways," I can only offer a few quick observations in conclusion:
ISSN:0049-2426
1527-2095
1527-2095
DOI:10.1353/sub.2003.0033