The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French

The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French
Author: Oana Panaïté
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786948141

This book explores the 'colonial fortune' in light of contemporary concerns with issues of fate, economics, legacy, and debt and the persistence of the colonial in today’s political and cultural conversation.

Contemporary Fiction in French

Contemporary Fiction in French
Author: Anna-Louise Milne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108658849

Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.

Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World

Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World
Author: Sarah Arens
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1837645221

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture

The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture
Author: Jennifer Solheim
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1786948451

In considering cultural works from French-speaking North Africa and the Middle East all published or released in France from 1962-2011, Solheim’s study of listening across cultural genres will be of interest to any scholar curious about contemporary postcolonial France.

France in Flux

France in Flux
Author: Ari J. Blatt
Publisher: Contemporary French and Franco
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786941783

The changing look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French culture since the 1980s. This collection of essays explores concern with space across a range of media, from recent cinema, documentary filmmaking and photographic projects to television drama and contemporary fiction, and examines what it reveals about the fluctuating state of the nation in a post-colonial and post-industrial age.

The Mauritian Novel

The Mauritian Novel
Author: Julia Waters
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786949490

This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.

Our Civilizing Mission

Our Civilizing Mission
Author: Nicholas Harrison
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2019-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1786949687

Our Civilizing Mission is both an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the foundations of the ‘humanities’. Focusing on the example of Algeria, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education.

Locating Guyane

Locating Guyane
Author: Catriona MacLeod
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786948664

This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere?

Architextual Authenticity

Architextual Authenticity
Author: Jason Herbeck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786940396

Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century - whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France's overseas colonies in the 1940's, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.