The Body in Francophone Literature: Historical, Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives
El Hadji Malick Ndiaye (editor), Moussa Sow (editor)
Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women's bodies, and the body's expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.
श्रेणियाँ:
साल:
2016
प्रकाशन:
McFarland & Company
भाषा:
english
पृष्ठ:
184
ISBN 10:
0786494662
ISBN 13:
9780786494668
फ़ाइल:
PDF, 1.92 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016