Research Catalog

Title

Reinventing community : identity and difference in late twentieth-century philosophy and literature in French / Jane Hiddleston.

Author

Hiddleston, Jane

Publication

London : Legenda, 2005.

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Details

Description

x, 237 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks. Hiddleston challenges this trend towards singularity, bringing together theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy to bear on literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte 1970-2000
• National characteristics, French, in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Ethnicity in literature
• French literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• French literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• French literature > North African authors > History and criticism
• North Africans > France > Intellectual life
• North Africans in literature
• Immigrants in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-234) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The deconstruction of community -- 2. Communities of difference -- 3. The identity of the French language and the language of French identity -- 4. Cultural oppositions in 'first-generation' immigrant literature -- 5. Leila Sebbar between exile and polyphony -- 6. Resistance and subversion in 'Beur' literature.

ISBN

1904713025 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 56450274
• SCSB-11484417

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library