Hommage à la belgitude: mutations après honte et malaise

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the publication of the emblematic dossier “Une autre Belgique”, in which the neolo-gism belgitude was first used, we analyze its impact in the context of the search for the legitimization by the French-speaking wri-ters of Belgium. Underscoring the interest of the less mentioned texts, the numerous theoretical discourses are articulated depar-ting from the symptomatic autobiographi-cal testimony by Anne-Marie La Fère titled “Confession d’une Belge honteuse” (1980). The changes between the 1950s and 1980s in the paradigmatic literary development of Jean Mu... Mehr ...