Francophone Literatures draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone areas outside Europe. These areas include North Africa, Black Africa, the Caribbean and North America.The book includes the following features:* a general introduction, which outlines the rationale and purpose of the book* a literary and a linguistic commentary on each extract included* a separate bibliography accompanying each section* a glossary of linguistic terms.The above features enable students to contextualize the extracts, identify the key literary and linguistic features and political, social, and cultural themes, to embark on further study, and to achieve their own successful text analysis by means of the models provided.Unique in its analysis both of literary and linguistic techniques, Francophone Literatures is essential reading for students of Francophone studies.

Francophone Literatures draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone areas outside Europe. These areas include North Africa, Black Africa, the Caribbean and North America.The book includes the following features:* a general introduction, which outlines the rationale and purpose of the book* a literary and a linguistic commentary on each extract included* a separate bibliography accompanying each section* a glossary of linguistic terms.The above features enable students to contextualize the extracts, identify the key literary and linguistic features and political, social, and cultural themes, to embark on further study, and to achieve their own successful text analysis by means of the models provided.Unique in its analysis both of literary and linguistic techniques, Francophone Literatures is essential reading for students of Francophone studies.

Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba''s francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada''s other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy''s work. Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures explores the traces and effects of Roy''s intimate knowledge of English language and culture, challenging and augmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.

Francophone Literatures draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone areas outside Europe. These areas include North Africa, Black Africa, the Caribbean and North America.The book includes the following features:* a general introduction, which outlines the rationale and purpose of the book* a literary and a linguistic commentary on each extract included* a separate bibliography accompanying each section* a glossary of linguistic terms.The above features enable students to contextualize the extracts, identify the key literary and linguistic features and political, social, and cultural themes, to embark on further study, and to achieve their own successful text analysis by means of the models provided.Unique in its analysis both of literary and linguistic techniques, Francophone Literatures is essential reading for students of Francophone studies.

Francophone Literatures draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone areas outside Europe. These areas include North Africa, Black Africa, the Caribbean and North America.The book includes the following features:* a general introduction, which outlines the rationale and purpose of the book* a literary and a linguistic commentary on each extract included* a separate bibliography accompanying each section* a glossary of linguistic terms.The above features enable students to contextualize the extracts, identify the key literary and linguistic features and political, social, and cultural themes, to embark on further study, and to achieve their own successful text analysis by means of the models provided.Unique in its analysis both of literary and linguistic techniques, Francophone Literatures is essential reading for students of Francophone studies.

Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba''s francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada''s other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy''s work. Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures explores the traces and effects of Roy''s intimate knowledge of English language and culture, challenging and augmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.