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Reclining Nude
Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin
Av Emma Wilson
Häftad, 2019
1093 kr
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The figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan …
Reclining Nude
Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin
Av Emma Wilson
Inbunden, 2019
2133 kr
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The figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan …
Montmartre: A Cultural History
Häftad, 2020
560 kr
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‘What is Montmartre? Nothing. What must it be? Everything’, proclaimed Rodolphe Salis in 1881, when his cabaret Le Chat Noir launched an entertainment boom in the 9th and 18th Arrondissements of Paris which would dominate the worlds of popular and high culture until the First World War. …
Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Häftad, 2014
547 kr
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Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the “spatial turn” in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the …
Decolonising the Intellectual
Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire
Inbunden, 2014
2382 kr
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Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture, and the ‘humanity’ they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed? …
The Social Architecture of French Cinema
1929–1939
Inbunden, 2014
2198 kr
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From the fleetingly captured street scenes of the city symphony, to the meticulously reconstructed studio city of musical comedies; from the propagandistic Popular Front documentaries about construction workers, to poetic realism’s bittersweet portraits of populist neighborhoods: Social …
Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing
Inbunden, 2014
2382 kr
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This book analyses French Caribbean writing from the point of view of its language and literary form - questions which until recently were somewhat neglected in postcolonial studies but are now becoming an important area of research. Britton supplements postcolonial theory with structuralism and …
The Literatures of the French Pacific
Reconfiguring Hybridity
Inbunden, 2014
2382 kr
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Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabha’s Third Space or of Stuart Hall’s politics of difference, for example, has opened up understandings of what may be produced in the spaces of cultural contact. This book argues that the particularity of the forms of …
Rwanda Genocide Stories
Fiction After 1994
Inbunden, 2015
2382 kr
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During what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide. Focusing on a …
Publishing Africa in French
Literary Institutions and Decolonization 1945–1967
Av Ruth Bush
Inbunden, 2016
2382 kr
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Publishing Africa in French was the winner of the African Literature Association's First Book Award in 2018.It has become commonplace to note that the global French literary marketplace is dominated by Parisian publishing houses and metropolitan kudos. This study probes the aesthetic and political …
Branding the ‘Beur’ Author
Minority Writing and the Media in France
Inbunden, 2015
2382 kr
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Branding the Beur Author focuses on the mainstream media promotion of literature written by the descendants of North African immigrants to France (often called beurs). These conversations between journalists and ‘beur’ authors delve into contemporary debates such as the explosion of racism in the …
Muslim Women in French Cinema
Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France
Inbunden, 2015
2071 kr
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‘Kealhofer-Kemp demonstrates that these women harbour dreams that deserve to be acknowledged. We should pay closer attention to them, not just in a theatre, but outside it as well.'Abhinav Tiku, Film Matters
Francophone Jewish Writers
Imagining Israel
Inbunden, 2015
2382 kr
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This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, diasporic Jews living outside Israel for whom the country nonetheless forms a central point of affect. The book’s purpose is to trace how these two …
Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics Today
Inbunden, 2016
2382 kr
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Being Contemporary is a volume of original essays by 23 preeminent scholars of French and Comparative literature, hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, in response to the editors’ invitation to “think through the contemporary.” The volume offers a sustained critical reflection on the …
Queer Maghrebi French
Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations
Häftad, 2017
668 kr
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This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including …
Queer Maghrebi French
Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations
Inbunden, 2017
2382 kr
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This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including …
Race on Display in 20th- and 21st- Century France
Inbunden, 2016
763 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. In Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France Knox turns the tables France’s rhetoric of ‘internal otherness’, asking her reader not to spot those deemed France’s others …
Is Theory Good for the Jews?
Inbunden, 2016
2133 kr
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For at least fifteen years, any keen observer of European society has been aware that antisemitism is no longer a matter of racial theory, nationalism, or exclusion of the 'other.' While in the past antisemites saw Jews as all too modern 'rootless cosmopolitans' (to use Stalin's expression), …
Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French
Av Oana Panaïté
Inbunden, 2017
2382 kr
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"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paule …
Caribbean Critique
Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant
Av Nick Nesbitt
Häftad, 2017
668 kr
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Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, …
Architextual Authenticity
Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean
Inbunden, 2017
2382 kr
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Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of …
Pacifist Invasions
Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric
Inbunden, 2017
2382 kr
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Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative poetics, and linguistics, it demonstrates how Arabic literature and Islamic scripture pacifically invade French in the poetry of Habib Tengour (Algeria), …
Vivre Ici
Space, Place and Experience in Contemporary French Documentary
Inbunden, 2018
2198 kr
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Vivre Ici invites the reader on a journey through the vast viewing landscape of contemporary French documentary film, a genre that has experienced a renaissance in the past twenty years. The films explored are connected not just by a general interest in engaging the “real,” but by a particular …
Traces of War
Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing
Av Colin Davis
Inbunden, 2017
851 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the …
From Bataille to Badiou
Lignes, the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987-2017
Av Adrian May
Inbunden, 2018
2071 kr
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From Bataille to Badiou: Lignes: the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987-2017 provides an exhaustive reading of the significant yet understudied intellectual review Lignes, from 1987 to 2017, to demonstrate how it has managed to preserve and develop the legacy of French radical thought …
Joseph Zobel
Négritude and the Novel
Inbunden, 2018
2382 kr
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Joseph Zobel (1915-2006) is one of the best-known Francophone Caribbean authors, and is internationally recognised for his novel La Rue Cases-Nègres (1950). Yet very little is known about his other novels, and most readings of La Rue Cases-Nègres consider the text in isolation. Through a series of …
Locating Guyane
Av Catriona MacLeod, Sarah Wood
Inbunden, 2018
2133 kr
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Overseas department of France in Amazonia and ‘ultraperipheral region’ of the EU, Guyane (French Guiana) is at the juncture of Europe, the Caribbean and South America. This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics …
Entangled Otherness
Cross-gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean
Inbunden, 2018
2133 kr
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Entangled Otherness explores the dynamics of cross-dressing and gender performance in contemporary francophone Caribbean cultures through a range of visual and textual media. Original in its comparative focus on the islands of Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe and their diasporic communities in France, …
Mauritian Novel
Fictions of Belonging
Av Julia Waters
Inbunden, 2019
862 kr
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An Open Access edition of this work is available on Modern Languages Open (https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/). On 12 March 2018, Mauritius celebrated fifty years as an independent nation amidst much fanfare. Yet behind the nation’s official image of multicultural ‘unity in diversity’ lurk deep …
Middlebrow Matters
Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque
Av Diana Holmes
Inbunden, 2018
1071 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Shortlisted for the 2019 R. Gapper book prizeWinner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, 2018.This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel …
