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Zusatztext In Francophone Literature as World Literature ! the editors and contributors reveal in a most compelling way the multi-sited nodes of literary production in the French language around the world! in a context marked by extraordinary creative profusion! ambivalent affiliations! and inescapable global market imperatives. The volume makes a powerful case for the validity and for the singularity of Francophone literature as World Literature! all the while infusing both terms! as they converge! with renewed theoretical poise. Informationen zum Autor Christian Moraru is Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. His recent publications include Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (2011), Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology (2015), Romanian Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Flat Aesthetics: Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary (Bloomsbury, 2023). Nicole Simek is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. Her latest books include Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life (2016) and Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation (2008). She is also co-editor of Francophone Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020) and translator of Maryse Condé's The Belle Créole (2020) Bertrand Westphal is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Limoges, France. His latest publications include Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (trans. 2011), A Plausible World (trans. 2013), La cage des méridiens. Le roman et l’art contemporain face à la globalisation (2016), and Atlas des égarements. Etudes géocritiques (2019). Founder of geocriticism, he specializes in world literature, postmodernism, and the interplay of art and literary cartographies.Examines the position of Francophone literature in the context of world literature: how it refracts major literary traditions as well as how it contributes to them. Zusammenfassung Francophone Literature as World Literature examines French-language works from a range of global traditions and shows how these literary practices draw individuals, communities, and their cultures and idioms into a planetary web of tension and cross-fertilization. The Francophone corpus under scrutiny here comes about in the evolving, markedly relational context provided by these processes and their developments during and after the French empire. The 15 chapters of this collection delve into key aspects, moments, and sites of the literature flourishing throughout the francosphere after World War II and especially since the 1980s, from the French Hexagon to the Caribbean and India, and from Québec to the Maghreb and Romania. Understood and practiced as World Literature, Francophone literature claims--with particular force in the wake of the littérature-monde debate--its place in a more democratic world republic of letters, where writers, critics, publishers, and audiences are no longer beholden to traditional centers of cultural authority. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading Francophone Literature with the World Christian Moraru, Nicole Simek, and Bertrand Westphal Part I Systems and Institutions of Literary Francophonie: Language, Written Culture, and the Publishing World 1. African Literature, World Literature, and Francophonie Bertrand Westphal ( University of Limoges, France) 2. Francophone African Publishing and the Misconceptions of World Literature Raphaël Thierry ( University of Mannheim, Germany) 3. Malinke, French, Francophoni...
