Le premier roman

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Author : Johan Faerber
Genre : Debuten

Summary : Les contributeurs interrogent le concept éditorial de premier roman afin de redéfinir les notions de littérature, réécriture, disparition et fin de l'univers romanesque.

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Author : Flora Veit-Wild
Genre : Literary Criticism

Summary : In the African context, there exists the 'myth' that orality means tradition. Written and oral verbal art are often regarded as dichotomies, one excluding the other. While orature is confused with 'tradition', literature is ascribed to modernity. Furthermore, local languages are ignored and literature is equated with writing in foreign languages. The contributions in this volume take issue with such preconceptions and explore the multiple ways in which literary and oral forms interrelate and subvert each other, giving birth to new forms of artistic expression. They emphasize the local agency of the African poet and writer, which resists the global commodification of literature through the international bestseller lists of the cultural industry. The first section traces the movement from oral to written texts, which in many cases coincides with a switch from African to European languages. But as the essays in the section on "New Literary Languages" make clear, in other cases a true philological work is accomplished in the African language to create a new written and literary medium. Through the mixing of languages in the cities, such as the Sheng spoken in Kenya or the bilinguality of a writer such as Cheik Aliou Ndao (Senegal), new idioms for literary expressions evolve. The use of new media, technology or music stimulate the emergence of new genres, such as Taarab in East Africa, radio poetry in Yoruba and Hausa, or Rap in the Senegal, as is shown in the section on "Forms of New Orality." It is a great achievement of this second volume of Versions and Subversions in African Literatures that it assembles contributions by scholars from the anglophone and the francophone world and that it covers literary production in a broad spectrum of languages: English, French, Hausa, Sheng, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Wolof and Yoruba. Some of the authors and cultural practitioners treated in detail are: Mobolaij Adenubi, Birago Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop, David Maillu, Thomas Mofolo, Cheik Aliou Ndao, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Hubert Ogunde, Shaaban Robert, Wole Soyinka, Ibrahim YaroYahaya, and Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou.

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Author : Geert Lernout
Genre : Literary Criticism

Summary : A major scholarly collection of international research on the reception of James Joyce in Europe

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Author : Natalie Edwards
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : The “Self” Which is Not One: Women’s Life-Writing in French, assembles articles on women’s life-writing from diverse areas of the Francophone world. It is comprised of nine chapters that discuss female writers from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, in addition to French writers. The idea of the self is currently attracting widespread interest in academia, most notably in the arts and humanities. The development of postmodernism supposes a fragmented “subject” formed from the network of available discourses, rather than a stable and coherent self. Jacques Derrida, for example, wrote that there is no longer any such things as a “full subject,” and Julia Kristeva now insists that the individual is a “subject in process.” The growing importance of psychoanalytic theory, particular in French studies, has also impacted upon this development. The basic tenet of psychoanalytic theory is that the individual is formed of a duality: the conscious and unconscious parts of the self which prevent the individual from ever fully knowing her/himself, and which thus insists upon a plural, incomplete self. Developments in the field of postcolonial studies have also made us aware of different ways of approaching the self in different parts of the world, and eroded the idea of a stable, conscious and complete self. As scholars examine these new ways of approaching the self, autobiography has been the subject of renewed interest. Several academic books have appeared in recent years that study the ways in which autobiographers represent the self as incomplete, evolving and elusive. In particular, a number of books have appeared on the subject of women’s autobiography and female subjectivity, such as works by Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson and Nancy Miller, and several volumes interrogate postcolonial women’s autobiography, such as texts by Françoise Lionnet, Gayatri Spivak, Carole Boyce Davies and Chandra Mohanty. Our volume unites these strands of criticism, by examining ways that female autobiographies write the self as a fragmented, plural construct across the Francophone world. This will be the first book-length study of this important development. This volume will be of interest primarily to students and scholars working in the areas of life-writing, French and Francophone studies, postcolonial studies and gender studies. The volume contributes to multiple areas that are currently garnering substantial interest in academe: postcolonial studies, Francophone studies, gender studies and women’s writing. By comparing works from across the Francophone world, our volume takes a global approach to the genre of autobiography and its inflections by women writers. The “Self” That is Not One in Women’s Autobiography in French therefore represents a timely intervention in several interlinking academic fields and will thus garner substantial interest.

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Genre : Literary Criticism

Summary : From the contents: Sandra BECKETT: Babes in the woods: today's riding hoods go to granny's. - Lewis SEIFERT: Madame Le Prince de Beaumont and the infantilization of the fairy tale. - Michael O'RILEY: La Bete est morte!': Mending images and narratives of ethnicity and national identity in post-World War II France. - Eileen HOFT-MARCH: Child Survivors and Narratives of Hope: Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance'. - Alioune SOW: L'enfance metisse ou l'enfance entre les eaux: Le chercheur d'Afriques' de Henri Lopes. - Cheryl TOMAN: Writing Childhood: Reflection of a nation in a village voice in Marie-Claire Matip's Ngond'. - Julie BAKER: The childhood of the epic hero: representation of the child protagonist in the Old French Enfances' texts. - Mary EKMAN: Destinataire et/ou heritier du texte': figuring the child in early modern French memoirs."

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Author : René Benjamin
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Summary : Depuis les premiers jours d'août 1914, René Benjamin, jeune journaliste mobilisé en Lorraine, tient un carnet de choses vues. Avec de l'eau plein nos chaussures et ma culotte, je me dis encore : il y a une page épatante à faire là-dessus, écrit-il à sa mère. Dès mars 1915, ses notes fournissent la matière d'un feuilleton que publie Le Journal. Lorsque, après une blessure, Benjamin est rapatrié en Anjou, il décide de tirer de ces croquis un roman mettant en scène un Parisien truculent et hâbleur : Gaspard, qui compte rentrer du front pour les vendanges, et que nous suivons en campagne, dans le train des blessés ou choyé par de jolies infirmières... Couronné par le prix Goncourt 1915, le livre connaîtra un vif succès jusqu'à la fin 1916. Il apparaît alors que le conflit va s'éterniser : à Gaspard succéderont des oeuvres plus noires : Le Feu de Barbusse, Ceux de 14 de Genevoix, Les Croix de bois de Dorgelès. Gaspard est sans doute le premier roman inspiré par la mobilisation et par l'euphorie de l'été 1914, que caractérisaient deux traits : l'élan charmant de cette race qui courut au feu ; puis la criminelle incurie de la plupart de ceux qui nous menèrent : politiques ou officiers. C'est le double sujet de mon livre, qui est un livre triste. On y rit ? Rien n'est plus triste que le rire dans le drame.

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Genre : Literary Criticism

Summary : From the contents: R. Howard BLOCH: Eneas before the walls of Carthage: the beginnings of the city and romance in the suburbs. - Richard l. REGOSIN: Language and nation in 16th-Century France: the Arts poetiques. - Zahi ZALLOUA: Reading the Essais: Where does the critic begin? - Louise K. HOROWITZ: Honore d'Urfe: Bellwether beginnings. - Leonard HINDS: Paratext and framing narrative: techniques of skepticism in Le parasite mormon."