"Je te parle dans ta langue, et c'est dans mon langage que je t'entends:" The Stranger's Linguistic Ingenuity.
The article examines Glissant's idea of generosity against Derrida's non-concept of absolute hospitality through their different approaches to language and translation, further illuminated by recent theoretical contributions by decolonial critics and theorists from the Global South. Generosity as th...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary French & Francophone Studies Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 170 - 186 |
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