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UNINA9910452814103321 |
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Migraine-George Th©er©ese |
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From francophonie to world literature in French : ethics, poetics, and politics / / Th©er©ese Migraine-George |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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French literature - Foreign countries - History and criticism |
Literature - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Francophonie and litt©erature-monde, friends or foes? -- Writing as mimicry: Tierno Mon©enembo's colonial avatar -- Writing as desire: Nina Bouraoui and H©el©ene Cixous -- Writing as otherness: Marie Ndiaye's inalterable humanity -- Writing as explosion: Maryse Cond©e's transnational textual bodies -- Writing as remembering: Lyonel Trouillot on love and Haiti -- Conclusion: Toward a literature of mobility and hospitality. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," signed by forty-four writers, many from France's former colonies. Proclaiming that the francophone label encompassed people who had little in common besides the fact that they all spoke French, the manifesto's proponents, the so-called francophone writers themselves, sought to energize a battle cry against the discriminatory effects and prescriptive claims of francophonie. In one of the first books to study the movement away from the term "francophone" to "wor |
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