Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures

Kamal Salhi is Director of the Centre for Francophone Studies in the Department of French at the University of Leeds. He is the editor of French In and Out of France: Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms, and Dialogue (2002) and the editor or author of several other works in Francophone studies. He is the founder and editor of the International Journal of Francophone Studies.

Professor Salhi offers a collection of work on Francophone issues that is monumental in breadth and scope. The work sets the tone for Francophone Studies in the twenty-first century by offering new insights into the history and the concepts of space and geopolitics, as they relate to notions of cultural identity, language, alienation, and ideologies of Otherness throughout the Francophone world.

• Chapter 1 The Francophone World Moves into the Twenty-first CenturyPart 2 North Africa and the Middle EastChapter 3 Colonial Culture as Francophone? The Case of Late Nineteenth-Century AlgeriaChapter 4 Closing and Opening of the Domestic Space in Ombre Sultane by Assia DjebarChapter 5 The Interruptive Dynamics of History and Autobiography in L'Amour, la fantasieChapter 6 Francophone Literature of the Middle East by Women: Breaking the Walls of SilencePart 7 Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 8 The Negotiation of Identity in the Francophone African NovelChapter 9 The Myth of the Garden of Eden and the Symbolism of the Baobab Tree in the Works of Ken Bugul and Aminata Sow FallChapter 10 Revisiting the "Roman de la Desillusion": A Semiotic and Cultural Reading of Ousmane Sembène's XalaChapter 11 Challenging Colonization of Space: Exteriors and Interiors in the Films of Ousmane Sembène and Suleymane CisséChapter 12 The Other I: Questions of Identity in Une Vie de boyPart 13 The CaribbeanChapter 14 Landscaping Identity in Contemporary Caribbean LiteratureChapter 15 Breaking the Metronome: Community and Song in the Works of Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba sorcière . . . Noire de SalemChapter 16 Literature in Guiana: The D'Chimbo NarrativesChapter 17 Guadeloupean Literature: Multiple Versions of CréolitéChapter 18 History and Cultural Identity in Haitian WritingsPart 19 North AmericaChapter 20 The Quebec NovelChapter 21 Quebecois Drama: Bordering on IntimacyChapter 22 Reflections on the Figures of a Nation in Les anciens canadiens by Philipe Aubert de Gaspé, pèreChapter 23 Antonine Maillet's Rewriting of Acadian HistoryChapter 24 "Raconte-moi Acadie": The Competing Voices of Acadia in Jacque Savoie's Novel Raconte-moi Massabielle and His Film MassabiellePart 25 EuropeChapter 26 Communication, Language, and Silence in Suisse RomandeChapter 27 Paradox of Linguistic Specificity and Dependence in the Regionalist Novels by Arthur MassonChapter 28 Linguistics Profit, Loss, and Betrayal in Paris-AthènesChapter 29 On Earthquakes and Cultural Sedimentation: The Origins of Post-Colonial Shock Waves in Azouz Begag's ZenzelaPart 30 The Indian Ocean and Southeast AsiaChapter 31 How Appropriate is the Term "Post-Colonial to the Cultural Production of Réunion?Chapter 32 The Poetics of Mixed Marriage in Le Clézio's La QuarantaineChapter 33 A Vietnamese Voice in the Dark: Three Stages in the Corpus of Linda LêPart 34 The Pacific OceanChapter 35 New Caledonia: An Emerging Literature as Social ProjectChapter 36 Appendix A: Summaries of Selected Creative and Critical WorksChapter 37 Appendix B: Guide to Selected Terms and Figures