Contemporary Fantastic - Reimagining Reality in French Fiction

This book examines the emancipatory and reparative functions of the literary fantastic in contemporary French fiction. Vredenburgh analyzes the selected authors' innovative understanding of the environmental crisis, racism, migration, and the formation of egalitarian communities.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Contemporary Fantastic
Chapter One: A Theoretical Introduction to the Fantastic
Chapter Two: Rethinking the Environmental Crisis through Marie Darrieussecq's Fantastic Fiction
Chapter Three: The Phantasm of Race in Marie NDiaye's Metamorphoses
Chapter Four: A Fantastic Community in Antoine Volodine's Post-Exoticism
Conclusion: This Magic Moment
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Amanda Vredenburgh

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Vredenburgh, Amanda Vredenburgh
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666940886
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-088-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism