Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary Afrofrench - Narrative

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates differentiated readings of blackness in European spaces. The book explores the spatial negotiations of Afroeuropean woman in France, through the figure of the black flâneuse.

List of contents

Introduction Part I: The Long Shadow of Marianne 1. I wonder as I wander: AfroFrench visuality and walking as method 2. The map is not the territory: francophonie and the errant writer 3. Black or French: voicing the borders of black France Part II: Blackness Intra Muros 4. Naming into place: Afropeanism as a poetics of relation 5. Zara in the metro: geographic variability and the ethnographic gaze 6. Re-imagining AfroParisianism: blackness encoded; spatiality decoded Conclusion: black spatiality and the search for ouverture

About the author

Polo B. Moji completed her PhD at Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Summary

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates differentiated readings of blackness in European spaces. The book explores the spatial negotiations of Afroeuropean woman in France, through the figure of the black flâneuse.

Product details

• Authors: Polo B. Moji, Polo B. (University of Cape Town Moji
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367637514
• ISBN: 978-0-367-63751-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary studies: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies