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1 online resource (558 pages) |
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Francophone Postcolonial Studies |
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Francophone postcolonial studies.
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Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Literary Form and the Politics of Interpretation; 'New World' Exiles and Ironists from Évariste Parny to Ananda Devi; ' ... Without Losing Sight of the Whole': Said and Goethe; Metaphorical Memories: Freud, Conrad and the Dark Continent; Playing the Field/Performing 'the Personal' in Maryse Condé's Interviews; Writing Subjectivity, Crossing Borders; A Concern Peculiar to Western Man? Postcolonial Reconsiderations of Autobiography as Genre; Still Beseiged by Voices: Djebar's Poetics of the Threshold |
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Algerian Letters: Mixture, Genres, Literature ItselfHow to Speak about It? Kateb Yacine's Feminine Voice or Literature's Wager: A Reading of Nedjma; The Rise of the Récit D'enfance in the Francophone Caribbean; Reinventing the Legacies of Genre; The Tragedy of Decolonization: Dialectics at a Standstill; J.M. Coetzee's Australian Realism; Ambivalence and Ambiguity of the Short Story in Albert Camus's 'L'Hôte' and Mohammed Dib's 'La Fin'; Writing Against Genocide: Genres of Opposition in Narratives from and About Rwanda; Notes on Contributors; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Postcolonial literature has often tended to invite readings that focus on the relation between texts and political contexts, not surprisingly perhaps, given the fraught historical moments of colonialism and decolonisation with which it frequently engages. Nevertheless, critics such as Nicholas Harrison have argued for attention to the literary as literary, and have explored the ways in which literary representation makes any assumed ideological content necessarily indeterminate. Taking into account this call for attention to the literary, this volume investigates more specifically the idiosync |
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Print version record |
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French poetry -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism
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French poetry -- Colonies -- France -- History and criticism
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French poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Poetics.
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Literary form.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy
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French poetry
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Literary form
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Poetics
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Postcolonialism in literature
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France
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French-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hiddleston, Jane
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| ISBN |
9781781388860 |
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1781388865 |
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