Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity /: literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity. (2018)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity /: literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity
- Further Information:
- Note: Christopher L. Miller.
- Authors:
- Miller, Christopher L, 1953-
- Contents:
- The land of the free and the home of the hoax -- Slave narratives and white lies -- The Forrest and The Tree -- Danny Santiago and the ethics of ethnicity -- Go ask Amazon -- "I never saw it as a hoax": JT Leroy -- Margaret B. Jones, Misha Defonseca, and "stolen suffering" -- Minority literature and postcolonial theory -- French and francophone, fraud and fake -- What is a (French) author? -- The French paradox and the francophone problem -- The real, the romantic, and the fake in the nineteenth century -- The single-use hoax: Diderot's La Religieuse -- Merimee's Illyrical Illusions -- Bakary Diallo: fausse-bonte -- Elissa Rhais, literacy, and identity -- Sex and temperament in postwar hoaxing: Boris Vian and Raymond Queneau -- Camara lie? two African classics between canonicity and oblivion -- Gary/Ajar: the hoaxing of the Goncourt prize and the making-cute of the Immigrant -- Who is Chimo? sex, lies, and death in the Banlieue -- I can't believe it's not Beur: Jack-Alain Léger, Paul Smail, and Vivre Me Tue -- Before "Paul Smail" -- Vivre Ne Tue (living kills me, or smile) -- The popular press reads Vivre Me Tue -- Smail speaks (by fax).
- Publisher Details:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (pages)
- Subjects:
- 098/.3
Literary Criticism -- General
African literature (French)
American literature
French literature
Hoaxes
Literary forgeries and mystifications
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books
Social Science -- Ethnic Studies -- General
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Hoaxes
French literature -- History and criticism
African literature (French) -- History and criticism
American literature -- History and criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780226591148
- Related ISBNs:
- 022659114X
9780226590950
022659095X
9780226591001
022659100X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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