Research Catalog

Title

Transnational French studies : postcolonialism and littérature-monde / edited by Alec G. Hargreaves, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy ; editorial assistant: Nora Hertel.

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hargreaves, Alec G.
• Forsdick, Charles.
• Murphy, David, 1971-
• Hertel, Nora.

Description

vii, 307 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

In March 2007 France's Le Monde published a 'Manifesto for a World Literature in French,' a proposal to recast Francophone literature as 'world literature written in French.' Signed by a multinational group of forty-four authors -- many from former French colonies -- the manifesto has drawn mixed reactions. Praised by some for breaking down the hierarchical division between French and Francophone literature, it has been criticized by others for recreating that division through the exoticism of the Francophone body of work. In Transnational French Studies, leading scholars address this debate and assess the wider question of the evolving status of French, Francophone, and postcolonial studies amid the challenges of globalization. -- Book jacket.

Series Statement

Francophone postcolonial studies. New series ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Francophone postcolonial studies ; new series, v. 1.

Subject

• French literature > Foreign countries > 20th century > History and criticism
• Postcolonialism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : what does littérature-monde mean for French, Francophone and postcolonial studies? / Alec G. Hargreaves, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy -- Francophone world literature (littérature-monde), cosmopolitanism and decadence : "citizen of the world" without the citizen? / Deborah Jenson -- From Weltliteratur to world literature to littérature-monde : the history of a controversial concept / Typhaine Leservot -- Littérature-monde in the marketplace of ideas : a theoretical discussion / Mounia Benalil -- The postcolonial manifesto : partisanship, criticism and the performance of change / David Murphy -- On the abolition of the French department? : exploring the disciplinary contexts of littérature-monde / Charles Forsdick -- Francophonie : trash or recycle? / Lydie Moudileno -- (Not) razing the walls : Glissant, Trouillot and the post-politics of world literature / Chris Bongie -- The Marie NDiaye Affair or the coming of a postcolonial evoluée / Dominic Thomas -- (R)evolutions / Thomas C. Spear -- Littérature-monde and old/new humanism / Jane Hiddleston -- Littérature-monde, or redefining exotic literature? / Jean-Xavier Ridon -- From littérature voyageuse to littérature-monde via migrant literatures : towards an ethics and poetics of littérature-monde through French-Australian literature / Jacqueline Dutton -- Littérature-monde and the space of translation, or, where is littérature-monde? / Jeanne Garane -- Littérature-monde or littérature océanienne? : internationalism versus regionalism in Francophone Pacific writing / Michelle Keown -- The world and the mirror in two twenty-first-century manifestos : Pour une littérature-monde en français and Qui fait la France? / Laura Reeck -- The post-genocidal African subject : Patrice Nganang, Achille Mbembe and the worldlinesss [sic] of contemporary African literature in French / Michael Syrotinski -- Afterword : the world in world literature / Emily Apter.

Call Number

JFE 11-1599

ISBN

• 9781846314834 (hbk.)
• 1846314836 (hbk.)

OCLC

655671188

Title

Transnational French studies : postcolonialism and littérature-monde / edited by Alec G. Hargreaves, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy ; editorial assistant: Nora Hertel.

Imprint

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010.

Series

Francophone postcolonial studies. New series ; v. 1

Francophone postcolonial studies ; new series, v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Hargreaves, Alec G.

Forsdick, Charles.

Murphy, David, 1971-

Hertel, Nora.

Research Call Number

JFE 11-1599