The colonial fortune in contemporary fiction in French /

This book explores the 'colonial fortune' in light of contemporary concerns with issues of fate, economics, legacy, and debt and the persistence of the colonial in today's political and cultural conversation.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Panaïté, Oana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 46
Subjects:
2000-2099
French fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Roman français > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Colonies in literature
French fiction
Imperialism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A primal scene : the colonial fortune
  • Part 1. From exotic destinations to colonial destinies. 1. Departures : orphans, heirs and adventurers ; 2. Landscape as vocation
  • Part 2. Writing as Africans. 3. Distant empathy ; 4. Maps of Frenchness : between self-invention and delusion
  • Part 3. Colonial remanence. 5. Algeria's mortified memory ; 6. A place of dialogue
  • An unpayable debt : for a paracolonial aesthetics.

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