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  • Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture

    by Dayna Oscherwitz, Matthew H. Brown, Cherif Correa, Rachel Diang'a, Augustine Uka Nwanyanwu, Moussa Sow, Mouhamedoul A Niang, Lyell Davies, David Murphy ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene's oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused either on his militant posture against colonialism, his ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Body in Francophone Literature

    Historical, Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives

    Edited by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, Moussa Sow ...
    Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Édouard Glissant

    A Poetics of Resistance

    by Sam Coombes ...
    Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of ... Read more

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  • 7 lies of feminism

    by Lucia Canovi ...
    7 lies of feminismCan feminism be proven by any sort of logic? Does its rhetoric still hold against meticulous examination? By reading this small book, you will discover and analyse seven lies of so-called "universalist" feminism. A feminism that advocates skirts for men and mini-skirts for women walking about alone at night...About the authorWinner of six literary prizes and specialist in ... Read more

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  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

    by F. Elizabeth Dahab ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Québec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood

    Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures

    by Ayo A. Coly ...
    While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant ... Read more

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  • Bourdieu and Literature

    by John R.W. Speller ...
    Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard ... Read more

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  • Les Belles Étrangères

    Canadians in Paris

    by Jane Koustas ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice, the reasons for the move away from Quebec translators as well as the process and perils involved in this detour ... Read more

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  • When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me

    by Ananda Devi ...
    Translated by Kazim Ali ...
    A poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging.“I’m sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my thin claws, searching for some chunk of literary gold to hell with all the disarrayed images of our homelands reflections of our particular misery.”From eminent Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, a ... Read more

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  • Interpreting the Republic

    Marginalization and Belonging in Contemporary French Novels and Films

    by Vinay Swamy ...
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