Francophone Literature After the Postcolonial Age

This book embarks on a critical review of what Francophone literature means and entails today. The postcolonial challenge features three fundamental facets: digital globalization, intertextuality, ecocriticism.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: One Subject in Theory
Chapter Two: Francophone Literature in the 21st Century: Nomadism, Aesthetics, and Digital Postcolonialism
Chapter Three: Postcolonial Intertextuality: Victor Segalen, Franz Kafka, and Toni Morrison
Chapter Four: Towards a New Conversation: French Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Farid Laroussi is professor of contemporary French studies and postcolonial studies in French at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Product details

• Authors: Farid Laroussi, Farid Laroussi, Laroussi Farid
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666939651
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-965-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 2000