Author: Maryse Conde
Publisher: Distribooks Inc
Keywords: francophone, mangrove, traversee
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 1989-06-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 2070385469
ISBN-13: 9782070385461

Author: Adele King
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: stories, francophone, new, africa
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0803278101
ISBN-13: 9780803278103

Out of French-speaking Africa, from Togo, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Rwanda, Djibouti, and Madagascar, comes the polyphony of new voices aired in this volume. The collection brings together fourteen important contemporary authors with roots in sub-Saharan French Africa and Madagascar, a new generation now living in France or the United States, and introduces their remarkable work to readers of English. These writers’ stories, unlike earlier African literature, seldom resemble traditional folk tales. Instead they are concerned with the postindependence world and reveal

Author: Belinda Jack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: survey, introductory, literatures, francophone
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-03-27
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0198715064
ISBN-13: 9780198715061

The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transforation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study introduces the diverse literatures from the numerous French-speaking areas around the world, including Africa, French Canada, and both the Caribbean and Indian Ocean Creole islands, among others. Moving region by region, Jack details the ways in which the most important authors establish a post-colonial and linguistically and culturally unique literary tradition while they subvert--through rewriting,

Author: Rachel Gabara
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: autobiography, third, person, francophone, french, screened, selves, split
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-10-11
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0804753563
ISBN-13: 9780804753562

This book is a study of recent autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. Gabara investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, as well as across the colonial encounter, from France to Francophone North and West Africa. Reading works by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, Assia Djebar, Cyril Collard, David Achkar, and Raoul Peck, she argues that autobiographical film and African autobiography, subgenres t

Author: Dominic Thomas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: francophone, africa, literature, propaganda, building, nation
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-11-19
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0253215544
ISBN-13: 9780253215543

What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition t

Author: Kamal Salhi
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: critical, essays, cultures, colonial, post, francophone
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-07
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 073910568X
ISBN-13: 9780739105689

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.

Authors:Dominique Rolin, Elaine L. Corts,
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: library, francophone, belgian, madman, divine
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 2005-11-14
List price: $58.95
ISBN-10: 0820471046
ISBN-13: 9780820471044

This novel begins as on his deathbed, the painter, through the eyes of his beautiful young wife, steps back into his past.... Caught between two realities, Pieter Brueghel, born to poverty and oppression, was also divinely gifted. In his studio, he would turn into a madman, wildly seeking his double who had been sent by God to reveal the truth of creation. This double would enter into his body to paint some of the finest paintings the world has ever seen.