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

History's Place

Seth Graebner

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that F... Lees meer

Violence in Caribbean Literature

Véronique Maisier

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• This book uses the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five Caribbean novels as a starting point to an examination of the turmoil of history in ... Lees meer

Collective Memory

Jo McCormack

• Paperback | 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 (1954D62). The work emphasizes the lack... 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

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

Voicing Diasporas

Nabil Echchaibi

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• The events of 9/11 have cast a shadow of suspicion on Muslims in Western Europe and fostered a public discourse of arbitrary associations with violenc... 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

Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures

Cecile Accilien

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone Afric... Lees meer

Writing through the Visual and Virtual

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Introduction: Traditions of Literacy by Renée Larrier andOusseina D. Alidou Part I: Visual and Verbal Artistry: Texts and Text[iles] as Epistemology C... 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

Writing from the Hearth

Mildred Mortimer

• Paperback | 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 Kéita, Mari... Lees meer

Rainbow Colors

Srilata Ravi

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• The narratives under consideration in Rainbow Colors depict the Mauritius's history of competing colonial forces, describe its intricate social geogra... Lees meer

Backwoodsmen as Ecocritical Motif in French Canadian Literature

Anne Rehill

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from th... Lees meer

The Other Hybrid Archipelago

Peter Hawkins

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the French language postcolonial writing of the Indian Ocean islands-Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros... Lees meer

The Transparent Girl and Other Stories

Corinna Bille

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered t... Lees meer

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa

Hervé Anderson Tchumkam

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State, revealing the deep interconnectednes... Lees meer

The Other Hybrid Archipelago

Peter Hawkins

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the French language postcolonial writing of the Indian Ocean islands_Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros... Lees meer

Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Organized by region, boasting an international roster of contributors, and including summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to ... Lees meer

Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. This interd... Lees meer

Empire lost

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• With global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the different constituencies of the world's French-speaking regions needs to be reexami... Lees meer

Fictions of Childhood

Marjorie Salvodon

• Hardcover | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Fictions of Childhood analyzes identity from the perspective of child/adolescent narrators and protagonists using the works of Nina Bouraoui, Linda Lê... Lees meer

Narratives of the French Empire

Kate Marsh

• Paperback | Engels | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra | nr. 47
• This book investigates how literary and more general conceptions of French colonialism were influenced by an awareness of how rival European powers ha... 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