Vocabulaire sur la colonisation, la Négritude et la créolisation
le métissage
(la mixité des races)
Edouard Glissant
- influenced by Aimé Césaire and his writing -from Martinique -"devant le monument aux Esclaves martiniquais"
1885 Conférence de Berlin
- regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power
Aimé Césaire
- wrote "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" -a poet, writer, founded la Négritude
Maryse Condé
- wrote "Liaison dangereuse" -romancièrer, essayiste -contemporary literature figure -won le Grand Prix Littéraire -parents believed French language was a magic key
Jules Ferry
-Former Prime Minister of France -promoted colonial expansion
Dany LaFerrière
-wrote "Je voyage en français" -believes the French language is internal (brings it along with him)
Joseph Zobel
-wrote "La Rue des Cases-Nègres" -autobiography was successful and made into a film -important author de la littérature antillaise
l'Hexagone
France
La Guinée
Guinea
la Martinique, Martiniquais(e)
Martinique, inhabitant of Martinique
les Antilles, antillais(e)
The Antilles, West Indian
les expositions coloniales
These fairs were meant to show the people of the Metropolis the different facets of the colonies with reconstructions and people
l'archipel (m), archipélique
a group of islands, a state or country comprised of islands
le rhizome, rhizomatique
a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots; a way of thinking about learning based on the plant
atavique
ancient, ancestral (ancestral, hérédiatire)
centralisé(e)
centralized
déterminant(e)
determining (décisif, essentiel)
bredouille (adj)
empty-handed
les entrailles (f)
entrails, guts
désormais
from now on
consenti(e)
granted, consented (approuvé)
identitaire
identity, identity-related
sous un jour
in a light (+ adjective like different or shadowy)
ascendant(e)
influence, ascend
La Plus Grande France
l'idée coloniale; expression during the expansion of France
savant
learned, scholar
migrant(e)
migrant
Le Diaspora
movement of population from original homeland
prévoir
predict, prédire
prévisible
predictable, foreseeable (attendu)
la créolisation
process in which Creole cultures emerge in the New World; colonization lead to mixtures of people of indigenous, African and European descent, which came to be know as creolization
la quête de soi
self-definition, search for oneself
l'esclavage (m), les esclavagistes
slavery, the slavers
connaître un succès
successful
la canne à sucre
sugar cane
téléologique
teleological, related to teleology, the philosophical doctrine that final causes, design, and purpose exist in nature
les Caraïbes
the Caribbean
la case
the box, compartment
le tournant
the corner, the turning point
la dislocation
the dislocation
l'ivresse (f)
the drunkenness
l'éclatement (m)
the explosion
l'éparpillement (f)
the fragmentation, dispersal (la dispersion, la dissémination)
Le colonialisme
the justification of the extension of the sovereignty of a state on the territories situated outside its national borders
la mission civilisatrice
the mission to "civilize", specifically a French term; rationale for intervention or colonization, purporting to contribute to the spread of civilization
le racisme
the racism
le partage
the sharing (la division en portions)
les bateaux négriers
the slave ships
la traite des esclaves
the slave trade/trafficking
l'étape (f)
the stage, step (une partie d'un processus)
le peuplement
the stand, settlement, the populating
la souffrance
the suffering
le plateau
the tray, set, plate
être friand(e) de
to be fond of
concevoir
to conceive, plan or design (conçois, conçois, conçoit, concevons, concevez, conçoivent) j'ai conçu
décréter
to declare, decree
la mise en perspective
to put in perspective
désapprendre
to unlearn, forget
imprévisible
unpredictable (inattendu)
viscéral(e)
visceral, instinctual
occidental(e) (-aux)
western
le béké
white creole, in charge at a plantation
s'inquiéter, inquiétant(e)
worry, worrying
