Francophone literature as world literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christian Moraru, Nicole Simek, and Bertrand Westphal.
• Editors: Moraru, Christian; Simek, Nicole Jenette, 1976-; Westphal, Bertrand
• Contents: Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reading Francophone Literature with the WorldChristian Moraru, Nicole Simek, and Bertrand WestphalPart I: Systems and Institutions of Literary Francophonie: Language, Written Culture, and the Publishing World1. African Literature, World Literature, and FrancophonieBertrand Westphal (University of Limoges, France)2. Francophone African Publishing and the Misconceptions of World LiteratureRaphaël Thierry (University of Mannheim, Germany)3. Malinke, French, Francophonie: African Languages in World LiteratureBi Kacou Parfait Diandué (Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)4. Globalizing the Spiritual and the Mythological: Indian Writing in French from PondicherryVijaya Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)Part II: Francophone Spatialities: Cities, Landscapes, Environments5. Mapping World Literature from Below: Tierno Monénembo and City Writing Eric Prieto (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)6. Questions of Diversity in the Global Literary Ecology and banlieue LiteratureLaura Reeck (Allegheny College, USA)7. As the World Falls Apart: Living through the Apocalypse in Christian Guay-Poliquin's Le poids de la neige and Catherine Mavrikakis's Oscar de ProfundisVincent Gélinas-Lemaire (University of British Columbia, Canada)8. Poetry in the World: Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and the Language of LandscapeJane Hiddleston (University of Oxford, UK)Part III: Relational Identities: Sex, Gender, and Class in Francophone World Arenas9. World Literature, littérature-monde, and the Politics of DifferenceThérèse Migraine-George (University of Cincinnati, USA)10. Queer Desire on the Move: Resistance to Homoglobalization in World Literature in FrenchJarrod Hayes (Monash University, Australia)11. Locations of Identity: Littérature-mondaine and the Ethics of Class in Evelyne Trouillot's Le Rond-pointRégine Michelle Jean-Charles (Boston College, USA)Part IV: Francophone Literature and Planetary Intertexts12. Writing French in the World: Transnational Identities and Transcultural Ideals in the Works of Michel Houellebecq and Boualem SansalJacqueline Dutton (University of Melbourne, Australia)13. Literature's Purchase: Remaking World Economic Relations in Crusoe's FootstepsNicole Simek (Whitman College, USA)14. Worlding Négritude, or Aimé Césaire's Global CalibanZahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)15. From Postmodern Intertextuality to 'Decomposed Theater': Matei Visniec between Romanian and Francophone LiteraturesEmilia David (University of Pisa, Italy)BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 860.9; French literature -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism; French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; French literature -- Appreciation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501347153; 9781501347160
• Related ISBNs: 9781501347146
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