Race and sex across the French Atlantic : the color of Black in literary, philosophical, and theater discourse / Frieda Ekotto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekotto, Frieda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genet, Jean, 1910-1986. Nègres.

French drama--20th century--History and criticism.

French drama.

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. Blancs.

Race in literature.

Sex in literature.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 103 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]

Summary:

Race and Sex across the French Atlantic is a critical reconceptualization of the contributions of France and the French-speaking world to race relations in the continental United States. Radically re-evaluating the work of French and Francophone cultural icons such as Jean Genet, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon and Dany Laferriere, this book makes use of untapped historical archival records that link these writers to important African-American political activists and intellectuals such as Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin and the Black Panthers, and even to the white American writer Norman Mailer. Which Color is Black? argues that re-evaluating the "Franch Atlantic" -- characterized by Quebec, France, Belgium, the French Caribbean and French-speaking Africa -- may fundamentally reshape present transatlantic notions of race and sexuality.

Contents:

The blacks and the whites: a transatlantic dialogue on race between Lorraine Hansberry and Jean Genet

Categorical reason and empire: Genet's use of the N word

It's about the N word

Eroshima: the meeting of the Black man and the white.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739141144

0739141147

9780739141168

0739141163

OCLC:

664667181