Polo B. Moji (South Africa University of Cape Town)

Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates differentiated readings of blackness in European spaces. The book explores the spatial negotiations of Afroeuropean woman in France, through the figure of the black flà neuse.

Produktdetails

• Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 235mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780367637538
• ISBN-10: 0367637537
• Artikelnr.: 68711767

Autorenporträt

Polo B. Moji completed her PhD at Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The Long Shadow of Marianne 1. I wonder as I wander:
AfroFrench visuality and walking as method 2. The map is not the territory:
francophonie and the errant writer 3. Black or French: voicing the borders
of black France Part II: Blackness Intra Muros 4. Naming into place:
Afropeanism as a poetics of relation 5. Zara in the metro: geographic
variability and the ethnographic gaze 6. Re-imagining AfroParisianism:
blackness encoded; spatiality decoded Conclusion: black spatiality and the
search for ouverture