Colonial schooling forced Glissant to learn spurious French ancestors.

Evidence

Brought at the age of ten to Fort-de-France, Glissant received the best of French colonial education at the Lycée Schoelcher, where Aimé Césaire was the “prof” of modern languages. Like other children in the colonies dependent on France, he too had to learn about “nos ancêtres les gaulois”-those spurious ancestors who had somehow buried the genetic ancestors in nonhistory. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 46

Categorization

• XREF: The ersatz-Gaul ancestors imposed by colonial education connect to Foucault’s treatment of imposed counter-history and to the reader’s project on imposed vs. chosen identity. — connects to: Colonial education imposed spurious French ancestry that buried real lineage in nonhistory — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 46; French colonial schooling classified African morality as barbaric and replaced offending local norms — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 462; French schooling created a rootless, rebellious African educated elite. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 703

Broader Connections

• Colonial education imposed spurious French ancestry that buried real lineage in nonhistory #corroborates (0.95) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 46
• French schooling created a rootless, rebellious African educated elite. #qualifies (0.72) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 703
• French colonial schooling classified African morality as barbaric and replaced offending local norms #expands (0.70) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 462