Francophone Literature as World Literature examines French-language works from a range of global traditions and shows how these literary practices draw individuals, communities, and their cultures and idioms into a planetary web of tension and cross-fertilization.
The Francophone corpus under scrutiny here comes about in the evolving, markedly relational context provided by these processes and their developments during and after the French empire. The 15 chapters of this collection delve into key aspects, moments, and sites of the literature flourishing throughout the francosphere after World War II and especially since the 1980s, from the French Hexagon to the Caribbean and India, and from Québec to the Maghreb and Romania. Understood and practiced as World Literature, Francophone literature claims--with particular force in the wake of the littérature-monde debate--its place in a more democratic world republic of letters, where writers, critics, publishers, and audiences are no longer beholden to traditional centers of cultural authority.
Author(s): Christian Moraru (editor), Nicole Simek (editor), Bertrand Westphal (editor)
Series: Literatures as World Literature
Edition: ePDF
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 320
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading Francophone Literature with the World | Christian Moraru, Nicole Simek, and Bertrand Westphal
Part I Systems and Institutions of Literary Francophonie: Language, Written Culture, and the Publishing World
1. African Literature, World Literature, and Francophonie | Bertrand Westphal (University of Limoges, France)
2. Francophone African Publishing and the Misconceptions of World Literature | Raphaël Thierry (University of Mannheim, Germany)
3. Malinke, French, Francophonie: African Languages in World Literature | Bi Kacou Parfait Diandué (Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
4. Globalizing the Spiritual and the Mythological: Indian Writing in French from Pondicherry | Vijaya Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Part II Francophone Spatialities: Cities, Landscapes, Environments
5. Mapping World Literature from Below: Tierno Monénembo and City Writing | Eric Prieto (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
6. Questions of Diversity in the Global Literary Ecology and banlieue Literature | Laura Reeck (Allegheny College, USA)
7. As the World Falls Apart: Living through the Apocalypse in Christian Guay-Poliquin's Le poids de la neige and Catherine Mavrikakis's Oscar de Profundis | Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire (University of British Columbia, Canada)
8. Poetry in the World: Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and the Language of Landscape | Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford, UK)
Part III Relational Identities: Sex, Gender, and Class in Francophone World Arenas
9. World Literature, littérature-monde, and the Politics of Difference | Thérèse Migraine-George (University of Cincinnati, USA)
10. Queer Desire on the Move: Resistance to Homoglobalization in World Literature in French | Jarrod Hayes (Monash University, Australia)
11. Locations of Identity: Littérature-mondaine and the Ethics of Class in Evelyne Trouillot's Le Rond-point | Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (Boston College, USA)
Part IV Francophone Literature and Planetary Intertexts
12. Writing French in the World: Transnational Identities and Transcultural Ideals in the Works of Michel Houellebecq and Boualem Sansal | Jacqueline Dutton (University of Melbourne, Australia)
13. Literature's Purchase: Remaking World Economic Relations in Crusoe's Footsteps | Nicole Simek (Whitman College, USA)
14. Worlding Négritude, or Aimé Césaire's Global Caliban | Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
15. From Postmodern Intertextuality to “Decomposed Theater”: Matei Visniec between Romanian and Francophone Literatures | Emilia David (University of Pisa, Italy)
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
