Contemporary fiction in French / edited by Anna-Louise Milne, Russell Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milne, Anna-Louise, editor.

Williams, Russell, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French fiction.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.

Contents:

Introduction: Mapping the contemporary / Anna Louise Milne and Russell Williams

Mediterranean Francophone writing / Edwidge Tamalet Talbayev

After the experiment / Simon Kemp

Getting a future : fiction and social reproduction / Anna-Louis Milne

Contemporary Fench fiction and the world : transnationalism, translingualism and the limits of genre / Charles Forsdick

The Franco-American novel / Russel Williams

Graphic novel revolution(s) / Laurence Grove

'Back in the USSR' : the prose of Andreï Makine and Antoine Volodine / Helena Duffy

Fictions of self / Shirley Jordan

Trauma, transmission, repression / Maxim Silverman

Wretched of the sea : boat people and narratives of displacement / Subha Xavier

Urban dystopias / Gillian Jein

Imagining civil war in the contemporary French novel / Martin Crowley.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Mar 2021).

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ISBN:

9781108570626

Access Restriction:

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