Simone Weil on Colonialism

Simone Weil

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's... Lees meer

Reimagining the Caribbean

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• This volume brings together scholars working in different languages--Creole, French, English, Spanish--and modes of cultural production--literature, a... Lees meer

France and Indochina

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of 'Indochina' as they are conveyed throu... Lees meer

Afrique sur Seine

Odile Cazenave

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Afrique sur Seine addresses the development since the 1950s of a new type of Francophone African novel created by first-generation black African autho... Lees meer

State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues

Hervé Anderson Tchumkam

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship studies the invisibility of visible minorities ... Lees meer

The French Colonial Imagination

Nicola Frith

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Dr... Lees meer

Paris and the Marginalized Author

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• This volume explores what it is that has brought marginalized writers together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period to the present mill... Lees meer

Against the Postcolonial

Richard Serrano

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Against the Postcolonial is at once a study of five writers from lands formerly or currently ruled by France (Algeria, Cambodia, Guiana, Madagascar, a... Lees meer

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa

Hervé Anderson Tchumkam

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads... Lees meer

Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market

Vivan Steemers

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• In recent years, the material circumstances governing the production of African literature have been analyzed from a variety of angles. This study goe... Lees meer

Rethinking Reading, Writing, and a Moral Code in Contemporary France

Michel Laronde

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Rethinking Reading, Writing, and a Moral Code astutely follows the experience of learning how to read and write in French elementary and secondary sch... Lees meer

Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond

Laura Reeck

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond explores the Beur/banlieue literary and cultural field from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present.... Lees meer

Collective Memory

Jo McCormack

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Collective Memory examines contemporary transmission of memories in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954-62). The work emphasizes the lack... Lees meer

Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris '68

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May '68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theat... Lees meer

Time Signatures

Alison Rice

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZ... Lees meer

Breadfruit or Chestnut?

Bonnie Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of contemporary writers of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In particu... Lees meer

The Body Besieged

Helen Vassallo

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• The Body Beseiged: The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar by Helen Vassallo analyzes the enduring legacy of the Algeria... Lees meer

Time Signatures

Alison Rice

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, Hé... Lees meer

Migrant Revolutions

Valerie Kaussen

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Migrant Revolution offers an overview of twentieth-century Haitian literature, placing its rich tradition in the context of transnational anti-colonia... Lees meer

Spaces of Creation

Allison Connolly

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Spaces of Creation examines the creative and synergistic potential of mothers and daughters in diverse Francophone societies. The study reveals that p... Lees meer

Picturing the Maghreb

Mary B Vogl

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Among the visual media, photography is one of the most powerful means of representation because of its immediacy and its supposed objectivity: photogr... Lees meer

Women Writers of Gabon

Cheryl Toman

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• This book demonstrates how the invisibility of women in Gabon has led to the omission of Gabon's literature from the African canon, and discusses the ... Lees meer

Writing from the Hearth

Mildred Mortimer

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa: Aoua KZita, Mari... Lees meer

Against the Postcolonial

Richard Serrano

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Against the Postcolonial is at once a study of five writers from lands formerly or currently ruled by France (Algeria, Cambodia, Guiana, Madagascar, a... Lees meer