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  • - Homo Expendibilis
    af Hervé Anderson Tchumkam
    341,95 - 836,95 kr.

    Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State, revealing the deep interconnectedness of the past with the recent situation of North Africa. Insecurity is not the consequence of a society perceived as uncivilized, but rather the result of an indecent society.

  • af Lisa Connell
    882,95 kr.

    As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisele Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes devoted entirely to the author and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisele Pineau's Works brings together a range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisele Pineau's works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. As this volume ultimately demonstrates, resistance holds up a mirror to the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the past, construct the present, and build the future. It argues that Pineau's characters open the narrative frame for reading them and move us beyond the categories of the wholly defiant or the inherently complicit. Above all, as they invite us to reimagine resistance, they expose our expectations and hopefully shift our understanding about what it means to rise and to fall in a world we seek to call our own.

  • - Archiving Postcolonial Minorities
    af Mona El Khoury
    373,95 - 1.167,95 kr.

  • - Publishing Practices and Identity Formation, 1998-2005
    af Claire Mouflard
    323,95 - 926,95 kr.

  • - Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature
    af Joseph Ford
    323,95 - 836,95 kr.

  • - Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen
    af Aoife Connolly
    323,95 - 972,95 kr.

    This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs following their mass migration to France in 1962. It breaks new ground by focusing on the family trope, including gender and youth, to reveal constructions of collective memory and identity post-Algerian independence.

  • - Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present
    af Kate Marsh
    398,95 - 1.256,95 kr.

    This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the established colonial systems in Martinique and in India. The study is the first in either English or French to demonstrate that representations of power relations, as well as the broader discourses with which they were linked, were as closely concerned with probing the similarities and differences of rival European colonial systems as they were with reinforcing their imagined superiority over the colonized, and that such power relations should not be conceptualized as a dualistic categorization of ';colonizer' versus ';colonized'. In doing so, it aims to go beyond examining the interaction between colonized and colonizer, or between colonial centre and periphery, and to interrogate instead the circulation of ideas and practices across different sites of European colonialism, drawing attention to a historical complexity which has been neglected in the necessary race to recover voices previously occluded from academic analysis. In exploring how the notion of the French empire overseas was construed and how it was infused with meaning at three different historical moments, 1784, 1835 and 1938, it demonstrates how precarious the French empire was perceived to be, in terms of both European rivalry and resistance from the colonized, and how the rhetoric of a French colonisation douce was pitted against the inscribed excesses of the more powerful British empire. Rather than employing the sorts of recuperative agenda which focus on how the colonized were elided (viz., Subaltern Studies) or on the writings of the formerly colonized (viz., Francophone Studies), the study concerns itself specifically with how French colonialism and imperialism were perceived, and thus offers a further corrective to any generalizations about European colonialism and imperialism. More particularly, by examining how the representational strategy of nostalgia is used in these texts, the study demonstrates how perceived loss, and nostalgia for an imperial past, played a role in dynamically shaping the French colonial enterprise across its various manifestations.

  • - Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities
     
    1.147,95 kr.

    The book is the first edited collection in English on Moroccan author Abdellah Taia and frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality.

  • - Ferment on the Fringes
    af Vivan Steemers
    928,95 kr.

    Ferment on the Fringes charts the trajectories of Francophone African narratives that reached the Anglo-American market, by analyzing the various institutional agents and agencies involved in the value-making process that accrues visibility to translated texts that eventually reach the Anglo-American book market.

  • - Literary Representations of the Nazi Occupation
    af Kathy Comfort
    368,95 - 972,95 kr.

    This book uses a close reading of seven literary memoirs of the Nazi Occupation of France to show how the collective memory of the period has been shaped by political and social factors. It incorporates trauma theory, history, and folklore studies, examining a diverse group of writers and bringing to the fore the unique perspective of each.

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    926,95 kr.

    The contributions of this volume explore the political, social, and cultural legacies of May '68 revolt in France and similar protest movements in other nations around the globe. These events share a global utopian imaginary which found expression in a variety of artistic productions.

  • af Mahriana Rofheart
    972,95 kr.

    In Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media, Mahriana Rofheart proposes a revised understanding of Senegalese migration narratives by asserting the importance of both local and global connections in recent novels, hip-hop songs, and documentary videos. Much previous research on migration narratives in French from Africa has suggested that contemporary authors often do not consider their countries of origin upon departure and instead focus on life abroad or favor a global perspective. Rofheart instead demonstrates that today's Senegalese novelists and hip-hop artists, whether living in France or Senegal, express connections to communities both in Senegal and abroad to cope with the traumatic experience of emigration and return. Ultimately, Rofheart asserts that Senegalese national identity remains significant to the way these authors and artists respond to migration.In her examination of novels in French, hip-hop songs in French and Wolof, and online documentaries, as well as the social and economic currents that influence the texts' production and circulation, Rofheart engages with scholarship on transnationalism, postcolonialism, popular culture, and new media studies. The study's initial chapters address well-known works from the mid-twentieth century, including Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure, as well as the films of Ousmane Sembene, and Djibril Diop Mambety. This book then demonstrates how novelists such as Aminata Sow Fall and Fatou Diome, as well as hip-hop artists including Simon and Awadi, break with previous tragic depictions of migration in novels and films to present successful responses to the contemporary context of frequent emigration from Senegal.

  • - Colonial Hauntings
    af Sage Goellner
    368,95 - 926,95 kr.

    Through literary and historical readings, this book explores how France was haunted by the violence of its colonial efforts in Algeria. Employing literary, philosophical, and archival analyses, it provides a new perspective on literary works from the French colonial period, while addressing questions of history, trauma, memory, and culture.

  • - Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Women's Literature
    af Julia Frengs
    972,95 kr.

    This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, considering postcolonial and feminist theoretical concepts in relation to Oceanian literary production.

  • - Literature, Photography, (Re)Presentation
    af Mary B. Vogl
    479,95 kr.

    Argues that four French writers - Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Leila Sebbar - practice "activist writing" which, when combined with the work of certain photographers, reframes a picture of Maghreb produced by two centuries of Orientalist misrepresentation.

  • - Women, Words, and War
    af Pamela A. Pears
    433,95 - 1.087,95 kr.

    Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam proposes a new approach to Francophone Studies through an examination of four specific Algerian and Vietnamese novels written in French by women. The connections between their works and shared colonial history lead us to a deeper understanding of postcolonial literature.

  • - Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel
    af Bonnie Thomas
    479,95 - 898,95 kr.

    Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of contemporary writers of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In particular, it explores the construction of gender identity by six authors-three male and three female-who have never been brought together in a study of this issue.

  • - A New Generation of African Writers in Paris
    af Odile Cazenave
    433,95 - 968,95 kr.

    Addresses the development since the 1950s of a type of Francophone African novel created by first-generation black African authors living in France. This work draws parallels with other literatures, and examines how these authors, are parting from mainstream African literature by exploring more personal avenues.

  • - Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb
    af Alison Rice
    433,95 - 1.198,95 kr.

    Presents a study of the autobiographical writings of three Francophone writers from the Maghreb Assia Djebar, Hlne Cixous, and Abdelkbir Khatibi. This book presents alluding to music as a means of comprehending the writers' improvisational writing styles.

  • af Corinna Bille
    418,95 - 1.087,95 kr.

    Stephanie Corinna Bille is a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt. This work assembles and translates a collection of Bille's work that exposes an English-speaking audience to Bille's exotic, captivating, and sexually provocative stories.

  • af F. Elisabeth Dahab
    479,95 - 1.064,95 kr.

  • - Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean
    af Valerie Orlando
    433,95 - 1.087,95 kr.

    A striking number of hysterical or insane female characters populate Francophone women's writing. To discover why, Orlando reads novels from a variety of cultures, teasing out key elements of Francophone identity struggles.

  • - Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant
    af Margot Miller
    413,95 - 1.075,95 kr.

    Miller synthesizes Karen Horney's model of submission, aggression and withdrawal, Jean Baker Miller's concept of relational being, Julia Kristeva's idea of psychic space, and Kelly Oliver's notions on social support to advance a penetrating analysis of the fiction of Paule Constant.

  • - 'Francophone' Writers at the Ends of the French Empire
    af Richard Serrano
    433,95 - 949,95 kr.

    Presents a study of five writers from lands formerly or currently ruled by France (Algeria, Cambodia, Guiana, Madagascar, and Mali) and an interrogation of the relevance of postcolonial theory, criticism and studies to these writers. This work places the writers against the background of postcolonial studies.

  • - An Ethic of the Other
    af Simone Weil
    548,95 kr.

    Twentieth-century French philosopher Simone Weil's complete writings on colonialism are collected and translated into English in this volume.

  • - Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature
    af Allison Connolly
    388,95 - 513,95 kr.

    Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their daughters, including isolation, domestic violence, and single parenthood, often serve to inspire introspection and creative action. In effect, their painful, frustrating existence provides the opportunitythe space of creationnecessary to weave and transmit stories. Organized around different manifestations of culturally diverse or transcultural spaces depicted in postcolonial literaturerural villages, domestic spaces, city centers, and spaces of othernessthe monograph uncovers the complexities of mothering and ';daughtering' in contemporary Francophone contexts. Through discussion of these spaces, the book attests to a specifically ';feminine' transculturality. This vision of diversity acknowledges both the heartening and tragic aspects of life in dynamic, multicultural communities, revealing creative synergies between the literatures of different Francophone diasporas and inviting the reader to reconsider the mother-daughter relationship.

  • - Literature and Herstory
    af Cheryl Toman
    857,95 kr.

    Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon's literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women's writing that show it is worthy of critical recognition and that prove why Gabonese women writers must be considered a major force in African literature. This book is the only book-length critical study of Gabonese literature that exists in English and although there are titles in French that provide analyses of the works of Gabonese women writers, no one work is comprehensive nor is the history of women's writing in Gabon considered in the such a manner. Throughout the various chapters, the book explores, among other things, contributions that are unique to Gabonese women writers such as: definitions of African feminisms as they pertain to Gabonese society, the rewriting of oral histories, rituals, and traditions of the Fang ethnic group, one of the first introductions of same-sex couples in African Francophone literature, discussions on the impact of witchcraft on development, and the appropriating of the epic poetry known as the mvet by women writers. The chapters explore works by all major voices in Gabonese women's writing including Angele Rawiri, Justine Mintsa, Sylvie Ntsame, Honorine Ngou, and Chantal Magalie Mbazoo-Kassa and the book concludes with brief introductions of a younger generation of Gabonese women writers such as Edna Merey-Apinda, Alice Endamne, Nadia Origo, Miryl Eteno, and Elisabeth Aworet among others.

  • - Connecting Worlds in the Wilds
    af Anne Rehill
    783,95 kr.

    In New France and early Canada, young men who ventured into the forest to hunt and trade with Amerindians (coureurs de bois, ';runners of the woods'), later traveling in big teams of canoes (voyageurs), were known for their independence. Often described as half-wild themselves, they linked the European and Indian societies, eventually helping to form a new culture with elements of both. From an ecocritical perspective they represent both negative and positive aspects of the human historical trajectory because, in addition to participating in the environmentally abusive fur trade, they also symbolize the way forward through intercultural connections and business relationships. The four novels analyzed hereJoseph-Charles Tache's Forestiers et voyageurs: Moeurs et legendes canadiennes (1863); Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine (1916); Leo-Paul Desrosiers' Les Engages du Grand Portage (1938); and Antonine Maillet's Pelagie-la-Charrette (1979)portray the backwoodsmen operating in a collaborative mode within the realistic context of the need to make money. They entered folklore through the 19th century literary efforts of Tache and others to construct a distinct French Canadian national identity, then in an unstable and continually disrupted process of formation. Their entry into literature necessarily brought their Amerindian business and personal partners, thus making intercultural connections a foundation of the national identity that Tache and others strove to construct and also mirror. As figures in literature, they embody changing ideas of the self and of the cultures and ethnicities that they connect, both physically and in an abstract sense. Because constructions of self-identity result in behavior, studying this dynamic contributes to ecocritical efforts to better understand human behavior toward both ourselves and our environment. The woodsmen and their Amerindian partners occupy the intriguing position of contributing to both damage and greater acceptance of the cultural Other, the latter of which holds the promise of collaboration and joint searches for sustainable solutions. Thus coureurs de bois and voyageurs, far from perfect models, can continue to serve as guides today.

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