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One Story of Academia: Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction through the Academie francaise - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures New edition
Moussa Traore
One Story of Academia: Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction through the Academie francaise - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures New edition
Moussa Traore
Explores how word race was historically linked to kings and feudal lords as a sign of elite social distinction, and how Academie francaise has embodied that type of distinction in France since its establishment in 1635. This book highlights how significance of language in French sense of race - as superiority - is at heart of Academie francaise.
283 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 16, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9781433109164 |
Publishers | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
Pages | 283 |
Dimensions | 232 × 157 × 23 mm · 564 g |
Language | English |