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| Genre/Form: | Einführung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jack, Belinda Elizabeth. Francophone literatures. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604584816 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Belinda Elizabeth Jack |
| ISBN: | 0198715072 9780198715078 0198715064 9780198715061 |
| OCLC Number: | 34557449 |
| Description: | 305 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Europe and North America: Belgium ; Switzerland ; Quebec and French Canada -- Creole Islands: Antilles and French Guiana ; Haiti ; Mauritius ; La Réunion -- North Africa and the Near East: The Maghreb ; Algeria ; Morocco ; Tunisia ; Egypt ; Lebanon -- Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar: Sub-Saharan Africa ; Madagascar. |
| Responsibility: | Belinda Jack. |
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Abstract:
Francophone literatures emerge from rich bi- and multi-lingual cultures in part as colonial legacies. They also challenge the monopoly of the French literary tradition. This introductory survey celebrates the linguistic difference of such texts and the creative possibilities offered by deviance from an established tradition, demanding new critical approaches. The texts studied here cast a new light upon French literature in terms of their diverse perspectives upon writing, history, politics, and culture, their violent rewritings, subversive versions and parodies sometimes forming an elaborate pastiche of celebrated Frence texts. Guides to further reading, a select bibliography, and an extensive index combine to make the book an extremely readable introductory overview of a hitherto little explored area.
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