Francophone Afropean literatures / / edited by Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas
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| Titolo: |
Francophone Afropean literatures / / edited by Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 840.996 |
| Soggetto topico: | African literature (French) - History and criticism |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe In literature |
| Africa Civilization Western influences | |
| Europe Civilization African influences | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | HitchcottNicki |
| ThomasDominic Richard David | |
| Note generali: | Short stories conclude with translator's name. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ; Introduction: Francophone Afropeans / Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas -- Essays: Afropeanism and francophone Sub-Saharan African writing / Dominic Thomas -- The transatlantic poetics of Fatou Diome / Kathryn M. Lachman. Corps sans titre : "fleshiness" and Afropean identity in Bessora's 53 cm / John Nimis -- Already here : Sami Tchak's Afropean generation / Allison Van Deventer -- Paris polar : Afropean noir in the City of Light / Dawn Fulton -- Mapping Afropea : the translation of Black Paris in the fiction of Alain Mabanckou / John Patrick Walsh -- Relighting stars and bazaars of voices : exchange and dialogue in Leonora Miano's Tels des astres etients and Alain Mabanckou's Black bazar / Kathryn Kleppinger -- Sex and the Afropean city : Leonora Miano's Blues pour Elise / Nicki Hitchcott -- Towards an Afropean cosmopolitanism : hospitality, friendship and the African immigrant / Srilata Ravi -- Afropean masculinities as bricolage / Ayo A. Coly -- Short stories: The old man and the boat / Fatou Diome -- The rain-maker affair / Leonora Miano -- The squirrels of Wannsee / Abdourahman A. Waheri -- Francasterix / Wilfried N'Sonde -- At the borders of my skin / Sami Tchak -- Confessions of a sapeur / Alain Mabanckou. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Francophone Afropean literatures |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-590-4 |
| 1-78138-718-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460457103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Francophone postcolonial studies ; ; new ser., v.5.