From francophonie to world literature in French : ethics, poetics, and politics / Thérèse Migraine-George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Migraine-George, Thérèse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," signed by forty-four writers, many from France's former colonies. Proclaiming that the francophone label encompassed people who had little in common besides the fact that they all spoke French, the manifesto's proponents, the so-called francophone writers themselves, sought to energize a battle cry against the discriminatory effects and prescriptive claims of francophonie. In one of the first books to study the movement away from the term "francophone" to "wor

Contents:

Introduction: Francophonie and litt©erature-monde, friends or foes?

Writing as mimicry: Tierno Mon©enembo's colonial avatar

Writing as desire: Nina Bouraoui and H©el©ene Cixous

Writing as otherness: Marie Ndiaye's inalterable humanity

Writing as explosion: Maryse Cond©e's transnational textual bodies

Writing as remembering: Lyonel Trouillot on love and Haiti

Conclusion: Toward a literature of mobility and hospitality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496209245

1496209249

9780803248618

080324861X

OCLC:

879945615