Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde (Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846318106 ISBN 13: 9781846318108

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The 2007 manifesto in favour of a "Littérature-monde en français" has generated new debates in both "francophone" and "postcolonial" studies. Praised by some for breaking down the hierarchical division between "French" and "Francophone" literatures, the manifesto has been criticized by others for recreating that division through an exoticizing vision that continues to privilege the publishing industry of the former colonial métropole. Does the manifesto signal the advent of a new critical paradigm destined to render obsolescent those of "francophone" and/or "postcolonial" studies? Or is it simply a passing fad, a glitzy but ephemeral publicity stunt generated and promoted by writers and publishing executives vis-à-vis whom scholars and critics should maintain a skeptical distance? Does it offer an all-embracing transnational vista leading beyond the confines of postcolonialism or reintroduce an incipient form of neocolonialism even while proclaiming the end of the centre/periphery divide? In address

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Professor Alec G. Hargreaves is Ada Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French and Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. Professor Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. David Murphy is Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Stirling and President of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846318106
• ISBN 13: 9781846318108
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 307
• Editor: Hargreaves Alec G., Forsdick Charles, Murphy David