Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies

This varied and thoughtfully compiled collection of essays... will provide a fruitful meeting point for all interested in the Maghreb, the Caribbean, Quebec, and France, as well as in migration, comparative, and feminist studies. - Mireille Rosello, Northwestern University

H. Adlai Murdoch is associate professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel. Anne Donadey is associate professor of European studies and women's studies at San Diego State University and author of Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing Between Worlds.

Introduction; 1. Productive Intersections, by Anne Donadey and H. Adlai Murdoch Part I. Rethinking Theoretical Beginnings; 2. Power, Purpose, the Presumptuousness of Postcoloniality, and Frantz Fanon's Peau noire, masques blancs, by E. Anthony Hurley; 3. Unfathomable Toussaint: The (Un)Making of a Hero, by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi; 4. A Neglected Precursor: Roland Barthes and the Origins of Postcolonialism, by Alec G. Hargreaves; Part II. Postcolonialism, Modernity, and French Identities; 5. Nomadic Thought, Postcolonialism, and Maghrebian Writing, by John D. Erickson; 6. Narratives of Internal Exile: Cixous, Derrida, and the Vichy Years in Algeria, by Ronnie Scharfman; 7. Meinoires d'Immigres: Bougnoul for What? by Kenneth W. Harrow; 8. French Interwar Cinema as Vernacular Modernism: Pabst's Drame de Shanghal (1938), by Winifred Woodhull; Part III. Displacing Francophonie: Migration and Transcultural Identities; 9. Quebec and France: La Francophonie in a Comparative Postcolonial Frame, by Eloise A. Briere; 10. Displaced Discourses: Post(-)coloniality, Francophone Space(s), and the Literature(s) of Immigration in France, by Michel Laronde; 11. The Francophone Postcolonial Field, by Jacques Coursil and Delphine Perret; Part IV. Theorizing the Black Atlantic; 12. Borders, Books, and Points de Repere, by Renee Latrier; 13. Francophone Studies / Postcolonial Studies: ""Postcolonializing"" through Relation, by Anjali Prabhu and Ato Quayson; 14. Intersections and Trajectories: Francophone Studies and Postcolonial Theory, by Dominic Thomas; 15. Afterword: Francophonie, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms, by Francoise Lionnet