The Body in Francophone Literature

Historical, Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives
Herausgeber: Ndiaye, El Hadji Malick; Sow, Moussa

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Produktbeschreibung

Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women's bodies, and the body's expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780786494668
• ISBN-10: 0786494662
• Artikelnr.: 43854284

Autorenporträt

El Hadji Malick Ndiaye is an assistant professor of French and global African studies at Seattle University. He is also a well received poet and critic. Moussa Sow is an associate professor of French and African studies at the College of New Jersey. His most recent publications appeared in the Journal of African Cinemas. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword
Dominic Thomas
Introduction (El Hadji Malick Ndiaye)
Part I. Socializing Bodies
Perceived Body, Figurative Body (Isaac Bazié)
The Body of the Reader-Author: The Case of Michel Tremblay (Sara
Bédard-Goulet)
Embodying Diasporic Identity: Materiality, Transformation and Creation in
the Work of Abdellah Taïa (Ryan K. Schroth)
"Opacité charnelle": Reading Botanical Metaphors of Creole Identity in
Patrick Chamoiseau's "L'esclave vieil homme et le molosse" (Nadège Dufort)
Postmodern and Postcolonial Francophone African Autofictional Strategies of
the Writing of the Self (Karen Ferreira-Meyers)
Part II. Performing Bodies
Performative Bodies in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué (Ann-Sophie Persson)
Corporeal Expressions in Fatou Diome's Writing (Moussa Sow)
The Diallobé and the Pulaaku: Ethnic, Ethic and Epistemic Use of the Body
in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Novels (El Hadji Malick Ndiaye)
Part III. Violating Bodies
The Body Speaks: Naming Violation in Mujawayo's and Belhaddad's SurVivantes
(Elizabeth Applegate)
Reading the Body Politic in the Prison Writings of Abdellatif Laâbi (Victor
Reinking)
Nelly Arcan: Women's Bodies and What Is Left (Anna Rocca)
About the Contributors
Index