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Simone Weil on Colonialism
An Ethic of the Other
Av Simone Weil
Häftad, 2003
704 kr
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In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the …
In Search of Shelter
Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant
Inbunden, 2003
1547 kr
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The fiction of French post-colonial writer Paule Constant is remarkable in its lurid and disturbing portrayals of female characters suffering in profoundly oppressive "colonizing" circumstances. In In Search of Shelter: Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant, author Margot …
Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls
Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean
Inbunden, 2003
1547 kr
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Female characters who suffer madness and insanity are strikingly prominent in novels by women writers of Africa and the Caribbean. To find out why there are so many 'suffocated hearts and tortured souls' in this literature, Valerie Orlando, who has long studied Francophone text and culture, here …
Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls
Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean
Häftad, 2002
704 kr
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Female characters who suffer madness and insanity are strikingly prominent in novels by women writers of Africa and the Caribbean. To find out why there are so many 'suffocated hearts and tortured souls' in this literature, Valerie Orlando, who has long studied Francophone text and culture, here …
Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures
Critical Essays
Av Kamal Salhi
Inbunden, 2003
1838 kr
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The recent rise of Francophone studies within French studies has created the need for a one-volume exploration of the range of expression in the French language following the colonial period. Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures collects discussions of literary texts and cultural identity from …
French Civilization and Its Discontents
Nationalism, Colonialism, Race
Av Tyler Stovall, Georges Van Den Abbeele
Häftad, 2003
613 kr
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What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern …
In Search of Shelter
Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant
Häftad, 2003
688 kr
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The fiction of French post-colonial writer Paule Constant is remarkable in its lurid and disturbing portrayals of female characters suffering in profoundly oppressive "colonizing" circumstances. In In Search of Shelter: Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant, author Margot …
After the Deluge
New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France
Av Julian Bourg
Inbunden, 2004
1697 kr
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Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Après nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of …
After the Deluge
New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France
Av Julian Bourg
Häftad, 2004
782 kr
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Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Après nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of …
Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism
Legacies of French Colonialism
Inbunden, 2005
1547 kr
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Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, public commemorations, and new ethnicities associated with the settlement of postcolonial immigrant …
Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism
Legacies of French Colonialism
Häftad, 2005
704 kr
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Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, public commemorations, and new ethnicities associated with the settlement of postcolonial immigrant …
Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam
Women, Words, and War
Inbunden, 2004
1547 kr
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In Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War author Pamela A. Pears proposes a new approach to Francophone studies. The work uses postcolonial theory, along with gender and feminist inquiries, to emphasize the connections between two Francophone literatures, Algerian and …
Packaging Post/Coloniality
The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World
Häftad, 2005
704 kr
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In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the "paratext"—the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords …
Against the Postcolonial
'Francophone' Writers at the Ends of the French Empire
Inbunden, 2005
1385 kr
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Richard Serrano begins his provocative new work Against the Postcolonial with the bold statement that OFrancophone studies is mostly a mirage, while postcolonial studies is mostly a delusion.O He argues that many attempts to use postcoloniality to account for francophone writers tell us more about …
Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies, 1940 to 1970
Av Anne Raffin
Inbunden, 2005
1385 kr
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To what extent, and precisely how, are nationalism and patriotism transnational processes? Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies analyzes the causes and consequences of state-sponsored patriotic youth associations during World War II in French Indochina. Providing an historical …
Transparent Girl and Other Stories
Inbunden, 2006
1547 kr
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Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer. As a writer, Bille excelled at rendering the woman's experience. She stands out as an elegant …
Time Signatures
Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb
Av Alison Rice
Häftad, 2006
704 kr
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Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, Hélène Cixous, and Abdelkébir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a "theme" pulsing throughout these writers' works, but also as a means of …
Transparent Girl and Other Stories
Häftad, 2006
688 kr
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Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer. As a writer, Bille excelled at rendering the woman's experience. She stands out as an elegant …
History's Place
Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature
Häftad, 2007
818 kr
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History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness through literature, and that post-colonial writers revised it while retaining its …
Breadfruit or Chestnut?
Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel
Inbunden, 2006
1385 kr
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Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of contemporary writers of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In particular, it explores the construction of gender identity by six authors—three male and three female—who have never been brought together in a study of …
Breadfruit or Chestnut?
Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel
Häftad, 2007
737 kr
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Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of contemporary writers of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In particular, it explores the construction of gender identity by six authors—three male and three female—who have never been brought together in a study of …
Migrant Revolutions
Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism
Häftad, 2008
818 kr
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Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial—and anti-globalization—politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, …
Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures
Häftad, 2008
711 kr
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Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for intense identity formation because it …
Other Hybrid Archipelago
Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean
Häftad, 2010
818 kr
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The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of …
Fictions of Childhood
The Roots of Identity in Contemporary French Narratives
Inbunden, 2008
1240 kr
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Fictions of Childhood explores the complexity of French identity in writings that focus on the experience of children. Nina Bouraoui, Linda Lê, and Gisèle Pineau—French writers of Algerian, Vietnamese, and Guadelupean origin, respectively—are discussed within the text because of their use of …
Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature
Häftad, 2010
818 kr
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Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Québec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature …
After Multiculturalism
The Politics of Race and the Dialectics of Liberty
Häftad, 2007
711 kr
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After Multiculturalism: The Discourse on Race and the Dialectics of Liberty provides a unique critique of multiculturalist thought in social theory and public policy from an individualist perspective. Contemporary academic and policy discourse on race and racism in the United States is dominated by …
Voicing Diasporas
Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Cultural Renewal and Retention
Inbunden, 2011
1345 kr
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The events of 9/11 have cast a shadow of suspicion on Muslims in Western Europe and fostered a public discourse of arbitrary associations with violence and resistance to social and cultural integration. The antagonistic ascendancy of militant Islam globally and the anxiety this has engendered are …
Writing from the Hearth
Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
Inbunden, 2007
1628 kr
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If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa …
Writing from the Hearth
Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
Häftad, 2007
818 kr
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If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa …
