Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity /: literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.