Packaging Post/coloniality - The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World

Informationen zum Autor Richard Watts is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Tulane University. Klappentext Packaging Post/Coloniality reads the marketing matter surrounding works of Francophone literature as an important though overlooked source in the cultural history of colonialism and the articulation of new identities in France and the Francophone world. Zusammenfassung Packaging Post/Coloniality reads the marketing matter surrounding works of Francophone literature as an important though overlooked source in the cultural history of colonialism and the articulation of new identities in France and the Francophone world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Paratexts and the Mediation of Culture Part 2 The Colonial Paratext and Its Imperial Desires Chapter 3 Black Text, White Masks: The Colonial Paratext in Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 4 "The Felicitous Graft:" Hybridity and Anxiety in Indochina and North Africa Part 5 The Textual Histories of Decolonization Chapter 6 Senghor and Sartre between the Colonial and the Postcolonial Chapter 7 Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Its Displacements Part 8 Postcolonial Transfigurations of the Books Chapter 9 Glissant, Lopes, and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial Paratext Chapter 10 Gender and the Paratext Chapter 11 Reading and Teaching Francophone Literatures in Translation

Product details

• Authors: Richard Watts, Watts Richard
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2005
• EAN: 9780739108567
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0856-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, HISTORY / Africa / General, Philosophy, HISTORY / Europe / France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, General & world history, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, African History, Literary theory, History of the Americas, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General