Francophone post-colonial cultures : critical essays / edited by Kamal Salhi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salhi, Kamal.

Series:

After the empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--French-speaking countries--History and criticism.

French literature.

Language and culture.

Civilization.

French-speaking countries.

French-speaking countries--Civilization.

Language and culture--French-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xiv, 471 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2003]

Contents:

1 The Francophone World Moves into the Twenty-first Century / Margaret Majumdar 1

Part 1 North Africa and the Middle East

2 Colonial Culture as Francophone? The Case of Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria / Leonard R. Koos 17

3 The Closure and Opening of the Domestic Space in Ombre Sultane by Assia Djebar / Philippe Barbe 28

4 The Interruptive Dynamics of History and Autobiography in l'Amour, la fantasia / Dominique Licops 39

5 Collective Memory and Representation in Tunisian Literature / Mohammed-Salah Omri 52

6 Francophone Literature of the Middle East by Women: Breaking the Walls of Silence / Mary-Angela Willis 64

Part 2 Sub-Saharan Africa

7 The Negotiation of Identity in the Francophone African Novel / Jonathan Carr-West 77

8 The Myth of the Garden of Eden and the Symbolism of the Baobab Tree in West African Literature / Chantal P. Thompson 90

9 Revisiting the "Roman de la Desillusion": A Semiotic and Cultural Reading of Ousmane Sembene's Xala / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri 102

10 Challenging the Colonization of Space: Exteriors and Interiors in the Films of Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cisse / Rachael Langford 114

11 The Other I: Questions of Identity in Une Vie de Boy / Kristin Swenson Musselman 126

Part 3 The Caribbean

12 Landscaping Identity in Contemporary Caribbean Literature / Eric Prieto 141

13 Breaking the Metronome: Community and Song in Maryse Conde's Moi, Tituba sorciere ... Noire de Salem / Holly Woodson Waddell 153

14 Literature in Guiana: The D'Chimbo Narratives / Florence Martin 166

15 Guadeloupean Literature: Multiple Versions of Creolite / Pascale de Souza 177

16 History and Cultural Identity in Haitian Writings / Suzanne Crosta 191

Part 4 North America

17 The Quebec Novel / Jacques Allard 209

18 Quebecois Drama: Bordering on Intimacy / Marie-Christine Lesage 217

19 Reflections on the Figures of a Nation in Les Anciens Canadiens by Philipe Aubert de Gaspe pere / Micheline Cambron 227

20 Antonine Maillet's Rewriting of Acadian History / Jean-Luc Desalvo 240

21 "Raconte-moi Acadie": The Competing Voices of Acadia in Jacque Savoie's Novel Raconte-Moi Massabielle and His Film Massabielle / Tony Simons 251

Part 5 Europe

22 Communication, Language and Silence in Suisse Romande / Joy Charnley 265

23 The Paradox of Linguistic Specificity and Dependence on Central Norms in the Belgian Regionalist Novels of Arthur Masson / Emmanuelle Labeau 275

24 Linguistic Profit, Loss and Betrayal in Paris-Athenes / Susan Stuart 284

25 On Earthquakes and Cultural Sedimentation: The Origins of Post-colonial Shock Waves in Azouz Begag's Zenzela / Michael O'Riley 296

Part 6 The Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

26 How Appropriate Is the Term "Post-colonial" to the Cultural Production of Reunion? / Peter Hawkins 311

27 The Poetics of Mixed Marriage in Le Clezio's La Quarantaine / Robert Alvin Miller 321

28 A Vietnamese Voice in the Dark: Three Stages in the Corpus of Linda Le / Emily Vaughan Roberts 331

Part 7 The Pacific Ocean

29 New Caledonia: An Emerging Literature as Social Project / Peter Brown 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-450) and index.

ISBN:

0739105671

073910568X

OCLC:

50737481