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The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French
Oana Panaïte
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Description for The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French
Hardback. 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. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163. .
"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paule Constant, Édouard Glissant, Tierno Monénembo, Marie NDiaye, and Leïla Sebbar) or who do not overtly manifest such concerns (Stéphane Audeguy, Marie Darrieussecq, Régis Jauffret, Pierre Michon, and Claude Simon), these works create a shared imaginary space permeated by the symbolic, rhetorical, and conceptual presence colonialism in our postcolonial era. The paracolonial describes the phenomena of ... Read more
"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paule Constant, Édouard Glissant, Tierno Monénembo, Marie NDiaye, and Leïla Sebbar) or who do not overtly manifest such concerns (Stéphane Audeguy, Marie Darrieussecq, Régis Jauffret, Pierre Michon, and Claude Simon), these works create a shared imaginary space permeated by the symbolic, rhetorical, and conceptual presence colonialism in our postcolonial era. The paracolonial describes the phenomena of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786940292
SKU
V9781786940292
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Ref
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About Oana Panaïte
Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington and the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012) and The Colonial Fortune of Contemporary Fiction in French (2017).
Reviews for The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French
'First-rate scholarship ... overall, this is a serious, original and insightful study.' Lydie E. Moudileno, University of Pennsylvania 'Oana Panaïté’s intriguingly titled Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French is an ambitious and timely attempt to move the field of postcolonial studies on to new terrain both in theoretical reach and particular attention.' Anna-Louise Milne, Francosphères 'This monograph ... Read more