Tongue ties: Manifestations of solidarity in francophone literature 1932--2009.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Tolliver, Julie-Francoise Kruidenier.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature.

French-Canadian literature.

African literature.

Romance-language literature.

Comparative literature.

0295.

0313.

0316.

0355.

0360.

Local Subjects:

0295.

0313.

0316.

0355.

0360.

Physical Description:

185 pages

Contained In:

Dissertation Abstracts International 70-06A.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Solidarity, as it is represented in literary texts, has not attracted very much critical attention thus far; contemporary critical discourses, shaped by critical theory and the hermeneutics of suspicion, have been resistant to studies of solidarity, friendship, and other positive affects. Examining French-language manifestos and novels from the 1930s to the present, this dissertation finds solidarity expressed through the "solidary we" of manifestos, through letters and literary allusions, through representations of traveling encounters, and through references to revolutionary and historical figures. In addition, the dissertation defines a place for solidarity in critical discourse, specifically in affect theory, Marxian theory, and postcolonial studies, and begins to imagine a solidary French-speaking world distinct from "Francophonie." Manifestos studied include the "Avertissement" from Legitime defense, Aime Cesaire's "En guise de manifeste litteraire," the "Manifeste du FLQ," the concluding chapter of Frantz Fanon's Les damnes de la terre, Jacques Stephen Alexis' "Lettre aux hommes vieux," Michele Lalonde and Denis Moniere's Cause commune: manifeste pour une internationale des petites cultures, the Eloge de la creolite, the 2007 "Manifeste pour une litterature-monde," and the 2009 "Manifeste pour les 'produits' de haute necessite." Novels included in the study: Ousmane Sembene's Les bouts de bois de Dieu, Pierre Vallieres's Negres blancs d'Amerique: Autobiographie precoce d'un "terroriste" quebecois, Hubert Aquin's Prochain episode, Marie Chauvet's Amour, colere et folie, and Mohammed Dib's Comme un bruit d'abeilles.

Notes:

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2028.

Adviser: Lydie Moudileno.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175.

ISBN:

9781109229301

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