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From Francophonie to World Literature in French : Ethics, Poetics, and Politics /

In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," signed by forty-four writers, many from France's former colonies. Proclaiming that the francophone label encompassed people who had little in common besides the fact t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Migraine-George, Therese
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Francophonie and litterature-monde, friends or foes?
  • Writing as mimicry: Tierno Monenembo's colonial avatar
  • Writing as desire: Nina Bouraoui and Helene Cixous
  • Writing as otherness: Marie Ndiaye's inalterable humanity
  • Writing as explosion: Maryse Conde's transnational textual bodies
  • Writing as remembering: Lyonel Trouillot on love and Haiti
  • Conclusion: Toward a literature of mobility and hospitality.