Beschreibung
focuses on the French and Francophone writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose formal experiments and revisions of genre have combined to create an entirely new set of literary forms. The series publishes studies of individual authors and artists, comparative studies and interdisciplinary projects.
Autorenportrait
Bronwen Martin is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has taught literature for many years at Birkbeck and has published widely in the fields of twentieth-century French literature, semiotics and discourse analysis.
Inhalt
Contents: The philosophical and political roots of Le Clézio’s postcolonial thought in
– Committed literature and the relationship between language and historic reality in
: Le Clézio and Jean-Paul Sartre – The civilizing mission and the encounter with non-European cultures and philosophies in
and
– The migrant, cultural identity and strategies of resistance in
and
: Le Clézio, Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon – The Revolutionary Wars and colonial Mauritius: violence, cultural oppression and slavery in
– Republican ideology, neocolonialism and the new racism (Paul Gilroy) in
– The quest for utopia in
: Le Clézio’s concept of relationality and the thought of Edouard Glissant.
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