Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 68 träffar
Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures
The recent rise of Francophone studies within French studies has created the need for a one-volume exploration of the range of expression in the French language following the …
Voicing Diasporas
The events of 9/11 have cast a shadow of suspicion on Muslims in Western Europe and fostered a public discourse of arbitrary associations with violence and resistance to social and …
Writing the Nomadic Experience in Contemporary Francophone Literature
In this book, Author Katharine N. Harrington examines contemporary writers from the French-speaking world who can be classified as literary “nomads.” The concept of nomadism, based …
History's Place
History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony …
Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls
Female characters who suffer madness and insanity are strikingly prominent in novels by women writers of Africa and the Caribbean. To find out why there are so many "suffocated …
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s …
Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies, 1940 to 1970
To what extent, and precisely how, are nationalism and patriotism transnational processes? Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies analyzes the causes and …
Rainbow Colors
The narratives under consideration in Rainbow Colors depict Mauritius's history of competing colonial forces, describe its intricate social geography of free and forced migrations, …
Paris and the Marginalized Author
This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations …
Collective Memory
Collective Memory examines the difficult transmission of memory in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954-62). Emphasizing the current lack of transmission of memories of …
Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa
Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, …
Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism
Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, …