Étienne Achille is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Villanova University. His publications include the monograph Mythologies postcoloniales. Pour une décolonisation du quotidien (2018, co-authored with L. Moudileno;) and the volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory. Sites and Symbols in Modern France (2020, co-edited with C. Forsdick and L. Moudileno).Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012), The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French (2017), and Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory (2022).

Is French literature locked into a white privilege that makes it incapable of thinking about race? A provocative reflection on the future of French universalism in the post-colonial era, taking us on a remarkable journey through contemporary 'white' literary creation.

• 1: The Universal Invisibility of the French White Writer: Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes by Marie Darrieussecq 2: Colonial Detail and Textual (Dys)Function: Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre 3: The Postcolonial as Vanishing Point: Les Années by Annie Ernaux 4: Chaos and Convergence: Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes 5: Postcolonial Otobiography: Histoire de la violence by Édouard Louis 6: Authoring Postcolonial Normality: Leurs enfants après eux by Nicolas Mathieu 7: Calling Out the iNovel: Je ne suis pas une héroïne by Nicolas Fargues Conclusion: The Kairos of White Writing. Building the Common Library of Literature in French

Étienne Achille is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Villanova University. His publications include the monograph Mythologies postcoloniales. Pour une décolonisation du quotidien (2018, co-authored with L. Moudileno;) and the volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory. Sites and Symbols in Modern France (2020, co-edited with C. Forsdick and L. Moudileno).Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012), The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French (2017), and Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory (2022).

Is French literature locked into a white privilege that makes it incapable of thinking about race? A provocative reflection on the future of French universalism in the post-colonial era, taking us on a remarkable journey through contemporary 'white' literary creation.

• 1: The Universal Invisibility of the French White Writer: Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes by Marie Darrieussecq 2: Colonial Detail and Textual (Dys)Function: Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre 3: The Postcolonial as Vanishing Point: Les Années by Annie Ernaux 4: Chaos and Convergence: Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes 5: Postcolonial Otobiography: Histoire de la violence by Édouard Louis 6: Authoring Postcolonial Normality: Leurs enfants après eux by Nicolas Mathieu 7: Calling Out the iNovel: Je ne suis pas une héroïne by Nicolas Fargues Conclusion: The Kairos of White Writing. Building the Common Library of Literature in French

Étienne Achille is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Villanova University. His publications include the monograph Mythologies postcoloniales. Pour une décolonisation du quotidien (2018, co-authored with L. Moudileno;) and the volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory. Sites and Symbols in Modern France (2020, co-edited with C. Forsdick and L. Moudileno).Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012), The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French (2017), and Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory (2022).

Is French literature locked into a white privilege that makes it incapable of thinking about race? A provocative reflection on the future of French universalism in the post-colonial era, taking us on a remarkable journey through contemporary 'white' literary creation.

• 1: The Universal Invisibility of the French White Writer: Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes by Marie Darrieussecq 2: Colonial Detail and Textual (Dys)Function: Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre 3: The Postcolonial as Vanishing Point: Les Années by Annie Ernaux 4: Chaos and Convergence: Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes 5: Postcolonial Otobiography: Histoire de la violence by Édouard Louis 6: Authoring Postcolonial Normality: Leurs enfants après eux by Nicolas Mathieu 7: Calling Out the iNovel: Je ne suis pas une héroïne by Nicolas Fargues Conclusion: The Kairos of White Writing. Building the Common Library of Literature in French