![]() In recent years, as part of the broader enterprise of "de-scribing" empire, (2) many authors have sought ways in which to contest stereotypical representations of formerly colonized peoples. (1) An expression of the fixed and the infinitely repeatable, the stereotype was thus linked in the colonial context to the creation of a series of essentialist categories that defined the relations between colonizer and colonized in terres of immutable opposites and relegated Africans to the realm of darkness and irrationality. This "construction" depends to a large extent on the deployment of stereotypes that purport to describe Africans, but rather serve as a form of containment: "Imperial textuality appropriates, distorts, erases, but it also contains" (Tiffin and Lawson 6, their emphasis). In this sense, as Frantz Fanon has observed, "l'ame noire est une construction du Blanc" (11). It has often been observed that colonialism, like racism, is an "operation of discourse" in that it determines the position of colonial subjects "by incorporating them in a system of representation" (Tiffin and Lawson 3). ![]() cela fait partie d'une mythologie a detruire. Les gens ne savent pas ce que c'est que le jazz. ![]() Il y avait un mythe du negre qu'il fallait demolir coute que coute. ![]()
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