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The body in Francophone literature : historical, thematic and aesthetic perspectives

Title: The body in Francophone literature : historical, thematic and aesthetic perspectives / edited by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye and Moussa Sow.
Publication: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

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Description

viii, 174 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative"--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Socializing Bodies -- Perceived Body, Figurative Body / Isaac Bazie -- Body of the Reader-Author: The Case of Michel Tremblay / Sara Bedard-Goulet -- Embodying Diasporic Identity: Materiality, Transformation and Creation in the Work of Abdellah Taia / Ryan K. Schroth -- "Opacite charnelle": Reading Botanical Metaphors of Creole Identity in Patrick Chamoiseau's "L'esclave vieil homme et le molosse" / Nadege Dufort -- Postmodern and Postcolonial Francophone African Autofictional Strategies of the Writing of the Self / Karen Ferreira-Meyers -- pt. II Performing Bodies -- Performative Bodies in Nina Bouraoui's Garcon manque / Ann-Sophie Persson -- Corporeal Expressions in Fatou Diome's Writing / Moussa Sow -- Diallobe and the Pulaaku: Ethnic, Ethic and Epistemic Use of the Body in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Novels / El Hadji Malick Ndiaye -- pt. III Violating Bodies -- Body Speaks: Naming Violation in Mujawayo's and Belhaddad's SurVivantes / Elizabeth Applegate -- Reading the Body Politic in the Prison Writings of Abdellatif Laabi / Victor Reinking -- Nelly Arcan: Women's Bodies and What Is Left / Anna Rocca.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1016

ISBN

9780786494668
0786494662
1476625360
9781476625362
9781476625362 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015050182

OCLC

936548719

Title

The body in Francophone literature : historical, thematic and aesthetic perspectives / edited by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye and Moussa Sow.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ndiaye, El Hadji Malick, editor.

Sow, Moussa, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1016

JFE 16-9260

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