LEADER 05144nam 22006132 450 001 9910787179003321 005 20170811033844.0 010 $a1-78138-590-4 010 $a1-78138-718-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000239979 035 $a(EBL)4616294 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001371238 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12603780 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001371238 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11300076 035 $a(PQKB)11540862 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000883183 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781385906 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4616294 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11240960 035 $a(OCoLC)891701674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4616294 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000239979 100 $a20170307d2014|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFrancophone Afropean literatures /$fedited by Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 232 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aFrancophone postcolonial studies ;$vnew ser., v. 5 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-78138-034-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $gIntroduction:$tFrancophone Afropeans /$rNicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas --$tEssays:$tAfropeanism and francophone Sub-Saharan African writing /$rDominic Thomas.$tThe transatlantic poetics of Fatou Diome /$rKathryn M. Lachman.$tCorps sans titre : "fleshiness" and Afropean identity in Bessora's 53 cm /$rJohn Nimis.$tAlready here : Sami Tchak's Afropean generation /$rAllison Van Deventer.$tParis polar : Afropean noir in the City of Light /$rDawn Fulton.$tMapping Afropea : the translation of Black Paris in the fiction of Alain Mabanckou /$rJohn Patrick Walsh.$tRelighting stars and bazaars of voices : exchange and dialogue in Leonora Miano's Tels des astres etients and Alain Mabanckou's Black bazar /$rKathryn Kleppinger.$tSex and the Afropean city : Leonora Miano's Blues pour Elise /$rNicki Hitchcott.$tTowards an Afropean cosmopolitanism : hospitality, friendship and the African immigrant /$rSrilata Ravi.$tAfropean masculinities as bricolage /$rAyo A. Coly --$tShort stories:$tThe old man and the boat /$rFatou Diome.$tThe rain-maker affair /$rLeonora Miano.$tThe squirrels of Wannsee /$rAbdourahman A. Waheri.$tFrancasterix /$rWilfried N'Sonde.$tAt the borders of my skin /$rSami Tchak.$tConfessions of a sapeur /$rAlain Mabanckou. 330 $aWhat does Afro-Europe signify? This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relationships with European society, culture and history. Through the different contributions in this volume, readers will discover the symbiotic ways in which Africa has transformed/been transformed (in/by) Europe and in turn how Africanness has (re)defined Europeanness. To this end, the volume places scholarly articles addressing the relationship between the francophone and Afro-European context alongside new, specially commissioned short stories and essays by some of the most critically-acclaimed and influential producers of Afropean writing today: Fatou Diome, Alain Mabanckou, Le?onora Miano, Wilfried N'Sonde?, Sami Tchak and Abdourahman Waberi. Works by these authors are discussed in and across the scholarly interventions, generating dialogue around what it means to be 'Francophone' and 'Afropean' in the twenty-first century. At a time when it is no longer easy to define what Europe really is, this book considers to what extent the category 'Afropean' may prove helpful in improving our understanding of the complex ways in which minority communities conceive of identity in Europe today and address the range of issues impacting them. The notion of 'Afropeanism' is of course relatively new, and this book does not claim to offer an exhaustive analysis of the term's usage and/or potential pertinence. Rather, the cultural, political, and social circumstances of Europe today are reflected in discussions surrounding the term and perhaps not surprisingly, in the diverse and diverging perspectives adopted by the scholars and creative writers in this volume. 410 0$aFrancophone postcolonial studies ;$vnew ser., v.5. 606 $aAfrican literature (French)$xHistory and criticism 607 $aEurope$xIn literature 607 $aAfrica$xCivilization$xWestern influences 607 $aEurope$xCivilization$xAfrican influences 615 0$aAfrican literature (French)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a840.996 702 $aHitchcott$b Nicki 702 $aThomas$b Dominic Richard David 712 02$aSociety for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787179003321 996 $aFrancophone Afropean literatures$93838467 997 $aUNINA