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Informationen zum Autor Rajeshwari S. Vallury is professor of French at the University of New Mexico. Klappentext Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the relationships between fiction, aesthetics, and politics. This collection combines interdisciplinary scholarship, nuanced theoretical reflection, and contextualized analyses of literary, cinematic, and philosophical practices to suggest alternative critical paradigms for the twenty-first century. The contributors' reappraisals of key writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals trace an alternative narrative of their historical, cultural, or intellectual legacy, casting a contemporary light on the aesthetic, theoretical, and political questions raised by their works. Taken as a whole, the essays generate a series of fresh perspectives on French and Francophone literary and cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordRajeshwari S. ValluryIntroductionRajeshwari S. ValluryChapter One. Commemorating Past History or Documenting the Persistence of Struggles?: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Phil Watts as ArchaeologistsYves CittonChapter Two. Free Indirect, or Who is the Subject of the Work of Fiction?Timothy BewesChapter Three. Time, Sense, and the Image in Raoul Ruiz's La Vocation Suspendue and L'Hypothèse du Tableau VoléGiuseppina MecchiaChapter Four. Lévinas and Camus: Love, Literature, and ResistanceChristian C. WoodChapter Five. Sacrificial Filiations: The Eichmann Trial, Hannah Arendt, and the Dangers of "Monumental History"Richard J. GolsanChapter Six. Linking the Aesthetic and the Political in Jean Genet: From Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs to Les nègres to the Black Panther PartyPamela A. PearsChapter Seven. Torture, Terror, and Revolution under the Algerian Sun: Tragic Consciousness in Mohammed Dib's Un été africainRajeshwari S. ValluryChapter Eight. L'Amour, La Fantasia, ou comment (ré)écrire l'histoire colonialeRéda BensmaïaChapter Nine. Desiring Anthropology. Roland Barthes's Ethnological TemptationVincent DebaeneIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors...
