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Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels

Emmanuel Buzay
Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels Book PDF

Author : Emmanuel Buzay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031166280

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Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels by Emmanuel Buzay Pdf

This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and, more broadly, contemporary French and Francophone literature. It examines the fictional minds of characters and their conceptions of resistance to the anticipated worlds they inhabit, particularly in novels by Pierre Bordage, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Antoine Volodine, and Élisabeth Vonarburg. It also explores how corporal postures serve as a matrix for philosophical quests in novels by Amélie Nothomb, Alain Damasio, and Romain Lucazeau. More specifically, from the fictional readers’ points of view, it provides a critical approach to the mythologies of writing, in the wake of the French philosophical tales by authors including Cyrano de Bergerac and Voltaire, to question the traditionally expressed formulations of the mythologies of writing, that is, of the metaphors of the book (the book of life, nature, and the world), to rethink the idea of a humanity within its limits.

Contemporary Fiction in French

Anna-Louise Milne,Russell Williams
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Author : Anna-Louise Milne,Russell Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108468918

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Contemporary Fiction in French by Anna-Louise Milne,Russell Williams Pdf

Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.

American Street

Ibi Zoboi
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Author : Ibi Zoboi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062473066

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American Street by Ibi Zoboi Pdf

A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews and multiple awards! A New York Times Notable Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book Of All Time* Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the Year An evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jason Reynolds In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture. On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit’s west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost. Trapped at the crossroads of an impossible choice, will she pay the price for the American dream?

Autofiction

Antonia Wimbush
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Author : Antonia Wimbush
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800858015

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Autofiction by Antonia Wimbush Pdf

Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and identity as expressed in contemporary autofictional work written in French by women writers from across the francophone world. Drawing on postcolonial theory, gender theory, and autobiographical theory, the book analyses narratives of exile by six authors who are shaped by their multiple locales of attachment: Kim Lefèvre (Vietnam/France), Gisèle Pineau (Guadeloupe/mainland France), Nina Bouraoui (Algeria/France), Michèle Rakotoson (Madagascar/France), Véronique Tadjo (Côte d’Ivoire/France), and Abla Farhoud (Lebanon/Quebec). In this way, the book argues that the French colonial past continues to mould female articulations of mobility and identity in the postcolonial present. Responding to gaps in the critical discourse of exile, namely gender, this book brings genre in both its forms — gender and literary genre — to bear on narratives of exile, arguing that the reconceptualization of categories of mobility occurs specifically in women’s autofictional writing. The six authors complicate discussions of exile as they are highly mobile, hybrid subjects. This rootless existence, however, often renders them alienated and ‘out of place’. While ensuring not to trivialize the very real difficulties faced by those whose exile is not a matter of choice, the book argues that the six authors experience their hybridity as both a literal and a metaphorical exile, a source of both creativity and trauma.

The Character of Rain

Amelie Nothomb
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Author : Amelie Nothomb
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429978965

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The Character of Rain by Amelie Nothomb Pdf

The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state. "I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), the child bursts into existence, absorbing everything that Japan, where her father works as a diplomat, has to offer. Life is an unfolding pageant of delight and danger, a ceaseless exploration of pleasure and the limits of power. Most wondrous of all is the discovery of water: oceans, seas, pools, puddles, streams, ponds, and, perhaps most of all, rain-one meaning of the Japanese character for her name. Hers is an amphibious life. The Character of Rain evokes the hilarity, terror, and sanctity of childhood. As she did in the award-winning, international bestesller Fear and Trembling, Nothomb grounds the novel in the outlines of her experiences in Japan, but the self-portrait that emerges from these pages is hauntingly universal. Amelie Nothomb's novels are unforgettable immersion experiences, leaving you both holding your breath with admiration, your lungs aching, and longing for more.

The Green Gods

Nathalie Henneberg
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Author : Nathalie Henneberg
Publisher : Hollywood Comics
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935558471

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The Green Gods by Nathalie Henneberg Pdf

Les Dieux Verts [The Green Gods] (1961) tells of the romance of Prince Aran and Atlena during the Emerald Age of the Earth, in the far future, when Man's Empire is on the decline and the world is ruled by the eponymous "Green Gods," powerful entities which arose from the vegetal kingdom. The works of Rosny Award-winner Nathalie Henneberg (1917-1977) stand alone in the French SF landscape of the 1960s. Her use of the language, betraying Germanic and Russian influences, was unusually well-suited to creating larger-than-life heroic characters and epic, mythological romances. Her skills at creating intricately detailed baroque universes was second to none. This new edition translated by Hugo Award winnmer C.J. Cherryh also includes four Henneberg stories translated by SF Grand Master Damon Knight and an introduction by French SF scholar Charles Moreau. C.J. Cherryh, is a Hugo Award winning science fiction and fantasy author who has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, many set in her Alliance-Union universe.

Postcolonial Realms of Memory

Etienne Achille,Charles Forsdick,Lydie Moudileno
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Author : Etienne Achille,Charles Forsdick,Lydie Moudileno
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620665

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Postcolonial Realms of Memory by Etienne Achille,Charles Forsdick,Lydie Moudileno Pdf

Addressing the remarkable absence of colonial legacy from Pierre Nora's Les Lieux de mémoire, the present volume fosters a new reading of the French past by discerning and exploring an initial repertoire of realms that bridges the gap between traditionally instituted French memory and traces of the colonial on the Republic's soil, including its Outremer.

Michel Houellebecq

Douglas Morrey
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Author : Douglas Morrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846318610

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Michel Houellebecq by Douglas Morrey Pdf

Michel Houellebecq is one of the most successful and controversial contemporary French novelists. Translated worldwide, with three film adaptations of his works, he has also been at the center of a host of media scandals in France. In this book, Douglas Morrey examines Houellebecq's stark representation of humanity—a terminal state of decadence and decline ripe for replacement by a posthuman successor—looking at the global significance of his visions at the same time that he situates them in the contexts of French literature, culture, and society.

Being Contemporary

Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur
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Author : Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781382639

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Being Contemporary by Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur Pdf

A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.

The Mauritian Novel

Julia Waters
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Author : Julia Waters
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786949493

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The Mauritian Novel by Julia Waters Pdf

This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.

Absent the Archive

Lia Brozgal
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Author : Lia Brozgal
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789622386

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Absent the Archive by Lia Brozgal Pdf

Absent the Archive is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. This corpus, or anarchive, includes a variety of cultural texts whose formal, diegetic, and discursive strategies represent the massacre and its erasure, its "becoming invisible," and its afterlives as a trace, a memory, a sign.

The King's Daughter

Suzanne Martel
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Author : Suzanne Martel
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554982189

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The King's Daughter by Suzanne Martel Pdf

Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award Jeanne Chatel has always dreamed of adventure. So when the eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler, she doesn't hesitate. Her new husband is not the dashing military man she has dreamed of, but a trapper with two small children who lives in a small cabin in the woods. With her husband away trapping much of the time, Jeanne faces danger daily, but the bravery and spirit that brought her to this wild place never fail her, and she soon learns to be truly at home in her new land.

Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

Elizabeth Dahab
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Author : Elizabeth Dahab
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739118795

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Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature by Elizabeth Dahab Pdf

Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.

Rwanda Genocide Stories

Nicki Hitchcott
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Author : Nicki Hitchcott
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781384824

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Rwanda Genocide Stories by Nicki Hitchcott Pdf

A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide.

Continuum

Annabelle Dolidon,Tessa Sermet
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Author : Annabelle Dolidon,Tessa Sermet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1947845489

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Continuum by Annabelle Dolidon,Tessa Sermet Pdf

Classic French science fiction short stories translated into English for the first time. This unique collection of newly translated short stories offers a taste of classic and contemporary French science fiction to English-language readers. These stories cover a range of fascinating topics including simulated reality, speciesism, ecology, and transhumanism--all while exploring universal themes of belonging, death, and identity. Some of the authors featured in this anthology, like Julia Verlanger, Sylvie Denis, or Jean-Claude Dunyach, have shaped the history of French science fiction after World War II. Curated by Annabelle Dolidon and Tessa Sermet, French language and literature professors who share a love for the genre, these nine stories showcase some of the brilliant mid- to late twentieth century and twentieth century French contributions to science fiction. Dolidon and Sermet provide illuminating expansions that accompany each tale and fascinating insights into the evolution of French and American science fiction. The discussion opportunities are also a wonderful resource for teachers and students of French literature and French culture as well as English and comparative literature. This anthology is a great opportunity to discover French sci-fi in English translation for fans or readers new to the genre.