CONDITIONS DE POSSIBILITÉ DE L'HISTOIRE DES FRANCOPHONIES DANS LES ANNEES 1980 : QUELQUES RÉFLEXIONS.

This article aims at studying the connections between the discipline of Literary History and a field of enquiry whose epistemological, ideological and methodological frameworks were being reconfigured throughout the 1980s, namely Francophone Studies. The establishment of this branch of studies has aroused a series of fruitful, important debates regarding the future of literary French studies, whose issues have clearly crossed French borders - and way beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]