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Francophone Literature as World Literature Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

Francophone Literature as World Literature By Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

Francophone Literature as World Literature by Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

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Francophone Literature as World Literature by Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

Francophone Literature as World Literature examines French-language works from a range of global traditions and shows how these literary practices draw individuals, communities, and their cultures and idioms into a planetary web of tension and cross-fertilization. The Francophone corpus under scrutiny here comes about in the evolving, markedly relational context provided by these processes and their developments during and after the French empire. The 15 chapters of this collection delve into key aspects, moments, and sites of the literature flourishing throughout the francosphere after World War II and especially since the 1980s, from the French Hexagon to the Caribbean and India, and from Quebec to the Maghreb and Romania. Understood and practiced as World Literature, Francophone literature claims--with particular force in the wake of the litterature-monde debate--its place in a more democratic world republic of letters, where writers, critics, publishers, and audiences are no longer beholden to traditional centers of cultural authority.

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An important contribution to the lively and ongoing debate on what constitutes World Literature in French as well as a global mapping of its institutional, spatial and identity positionalities, Francophone Literature as World Literature is an original volume offering diverse approaches that are theoretically rigorous and planetary in scope. * Women in French Studies *
This fascinating and timely book is distinguished not just by the scholarly caliber of its contributors but by the range of its approaches, the breadth of its concerns, and the quality of its writing. * Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford, UK *
Francophone Literature as World Literature revisits a fruitful paradigm in modern literary criticism in the light of crosspollinations in various francophone areas. This rich collection of essays renews epistemological frameworks by exploring borderlands in four directions: systems and institutions, spatialities, relational identities, and planetary intertexts. It also carries on the discussion about 'worlding' ('faire-monde') in a ecological perspective for languages and literatures in the French Caribbean, Subsaharian Africa, India, North America, and Central-Eastern Europe. * Catherine Mazauric, Professor of Contemporary Francophone Literature, Aix Marseille University, France *
In Francophone Literature as World Literature, the editors and contributors reveal in a most compelling way the multi-sited nodes of literary production in the French language around the world, in a context marked by extraordinary creative profusion, ambivalent affiliations, and inescapable global market imperatives. The volume makes a powerful case for the validity and for the singularity of Francophone literature as World Literature, all the while infusing both terms, as they converge, with renewed theoretical poise. * Lydie E. Moudileno, Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, USA *

About Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

Christian Moraru is Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. His recent publications include Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (2011) and Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology (2015). He is co-editor of Romanian Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2018). Nicole Simek is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College, USA. Her publications include Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life (2016) and Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Conde and the Ethics of Interpretation (2008). Bertrand Westphal is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Limoges, France. His recent publications include L'oeil de la Mediterranee. Une odyssee litteraire (2005), Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (trans. 2011), A Plausible World (trans. 2013), and La cage des meridiens. Le roman et l'art contemporain face a la globalisation (2016).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading Francophone Literature with the World Christian Moraru, Nicole Simek, and Bertrand Westphal Part I Systems and Institutions of Literary Francophonie: Language, Written Culture, and the Publishing World 1. African Literature, World Literature, and Francophonie Bertrand Westphal (University of Limoges, France) 2. Francophone African Publishing and the Misconceptions of World Literature Raphael Thierry (University of Mannheim, Germany) 3. Malinke, French, Francophonie: African Languages in World Literature Bi Kacou Parfait Diandue (Felix Houphouet-Boigny University in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire) 4. Globalizing the Spiritual and the Mythological: Indian Writing in French from Pondicherry Vijaya Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Part II Francophone Spatialities: Cities, Landscapes, Environments 5. Mapping World Literature from Below: Tierno Monenembo and City Writing Eric Prieto (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 6. Questions of Diversity in the Global Literary Ecology and banlieue Literature Laura Reeck (Allegheny College, USA) 7. As the World Falls Apart: Living through the Apocalypse in Christian Guay-Poliquin's Le poids de la neige and Catherine Mavrikakis's Oscar de Profundis Vincent Gelinas-Lemaire (University of British Columbia, Canada) 8. Poetry in the World: Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, and the Language of Landscape Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford, UK) Part III Relational Identities: Sex, Gender, and Class in Francophone World Arenas 9. World Literature, litterature-monde, and the Politics of Difference Therese Migraine-George (University of Cincinnati, USA) 10. Queer Desire on the Move: Resistance to Homoglobalization in World Literature in French Jarrod Hayes (Monash University, Australia) 11. Locations of Identity: Litterature-mondaine and the Ethics of Class in Evelyne Trouillot's Le Rond-point Regine Michelle Jean-Charles (Boston College, USA) Part IV Francophone Literature and Planetary Intertexts 12. Writing French in the World: Transnational Identities and Transcultural Ideals in the Works of Michel Houellebecq and Boualem Sansal Jacqueline Dutton (University of Melbourne, Australia) 13. Literature's Purchase: Remaking World Economic Relations in Crusoe's Footsteps Nicole Simek (Whitman College, USA) 14. Worlding Negritude, or Aime Cesaire's Global Caliban Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA) 15. From Postmodern Intertextuality to Decomposed Theater: Matei Visniec between Romanian and Francophone Literatures Emilia David (University of Pisa, Italy) Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Francophone Literature as World Literature by Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
Professor Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
Literatures as World Literature
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2022-01-27
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