Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures Critical Essays

, by Salhi, Kamal; Allard, Jacques; Barbé, Philippe; Brown, Peter; Cambron, Micheline; Carr-West, Jonathan; Charnley, Joy; Crosta, Suzanne; Souza, Pascale De; Desalvo, Jean-Luc; Hawkins, Peter; Koos, Leonard R.; Labeau, Emmanuelle; Langford, Rachael; Lesage, M

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ISBN: 9780739105672 | 0739105671
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/28/2003

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Organized by region, boasting an international roster of contributors, and including summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to selected terms and figures, Salhi's volume is an ideal introduction to French studies beyond the canon.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Francophone World Moves into the Twenty-first Century	p. 1
North Africa and the Middle East
Colonial Culture as Francophone? The Case of Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria	p. 17
The Closure and Opening of the Domestic Space in Ombre Sultane by Assia Djebar	p. 28
The Interruptive Dynamics of History and Autobiography in l'Amour, la fantasia	p. 39
Collective Memory and Representation in Tunisian Literature	p. 52
Francophone Literature of the Middle East by Women: Breaking the Walls of Silence	p. 64
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Negotiation of Identity in the Francophone African Novel	p. 77
The Myth of the Garden of Eden and the Symbolism of the Baobab Tree in West African Literature	p. 90
Revisiting the "Roman de la Desillusion": A Semiotic and Cultural Reading of Ousmane Sembene's Xala	p. 102
Challenging the Colonization of Space: Exteriors and Interiors in the Films of Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cisse	p. 114
The Other I: Questions of Identity in Une Vie de Boy	p. 126
The Caribbean
Landscaping Identity in Contemporary Caribbean Literature	p. 141
Breaking the Metronome: Community and Song in Maryse Conde's Moi, Tituba sorciere ... Noire de Salem	p. 153
Literature in Guiana: The D'Chimbo Narratives	p. 166
Guadeloupean Literature: Multiple Versions of Creolite	p. 177
History and Cultural Identity in Haitian Writings	p. 191
North America
The Quebec Novel	p. 209
Quebecois Drama: Bordering on Intimacy	p. 217
Reflections on the Figures of a Nation in Les Anciens Canadiens by Philipe Aubert de Gaspe pere	p. 227
Antonine Maillet's Rewriting of Acadian History	p. 240
"Raconte-moi Acadie": The Competing Voices of Acadia in Jacque Savoie's Novel Raconte-Moi Massabielle and His Film Massabielle	p. 251
Europe
Communication, Language and Silence in Suisse Romande	p. 265
The Paradox of Linguistic Specificity and Dependence on Central Norms in the Belgian Regionalist Novels of Arthur Masson	p. 275
Linguistic Profit, Loss and Betrayal in Paris-Athenes	p. 284
On Earthquakes and Cultural Sedimentation: The Origins of Post-colonial Shock Waves in Azouz Begag's Zenzela	p. 296
The Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia
How Appropriate Is the Term "Post-colonial" to the Cultural Production of Reunion?	p. 311
The Poetics of Mixed Marriage in Le Clezio's La Quarantaine	p. 321
A Vietnamese Voice in the Dark: Three Stages in the Corpus of Linda Le	p. 331
The Pacific Ocean
New Caledonia: An Emerging Literature as Social Project	p. 345
Summaries of Selected Creative and Critical Works	p. 356
Guide to Selected Terms and Figures	p. 394
Selected Bibliography	p. 421
Index	p. 451
About the Contributors	p. 467
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