The colonial fortune in contemporary fiction in French / Oana Panaïté.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Panaïté, Oana, author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 46.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--21st century--History and criticism.

French literature.

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

African literature (French)--21st century--History and criticism.

African literature (French).

African literature (French)--20th century--History and criticism.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The Colonial Fortune highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics that emanates from a significant body of contemporary texts, both Hexagonal and non-metropolitan. The writers examined include those directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clezio, Paule Constant, Edouard Glissant, Tierno Monenembo, Marie NDiaye, and Leila Sebbar) and those who do not overtly manifest such a concern (Stephane Audeguy, Marie Darrieussecq, Regis Jauffret, Pierre Michon, and Claude Simon). The book presents a shared imaginary space permeated by the symbolic, rhetorical and conceptual presence of colonialism in the current postcolonial era. The paracolonial refers to the revival, resurgence, remanence, and residue that point to the permanence of the colonial in the contemporary imagination. It also addresses the re-imagining, revisiting, and recasting of the colonial in current works of literature (fiction, autobiography, and essay). The idea of colonial fortune emerges as an interface between our era's concern with issues of fate, economics, legacy, and debt stemming from the understudied persistence of the colonial in today's political and cultural conversation, and literature's ways of making sense of them both sensorially and sensibly.

Contents:

A primal scene : the colonial fortune

Part 1. From exotic destinations to colonial destinies. 1. Departures : orphans, heirs and adventurers ; 2. Landscape as vocation

Part 2. Writing as Africans. 3. Distant empathy ; 4. Maps of Frenchness : between self-invention and delusion

Part 3. Colonial remanence. 5. Algeria's mortified memory ; 6. A place of dialogue

An unpayable debt : for a paracolonial aesthetics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-202) and index.

ISBN:

1786940299

9781786940292

OCLC:

964646871