Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies

MURDOCH, H. Adlai and Anne DONADEY [eds.], Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, University Press of Florida, December 2004, 304 p.

ISBN: 0-8130-2776-4

This collection brings together methods and insights taken from literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, theory, film studies, and linguistics to define new parameters of study for the emerging field of francophone postcolonial studies. While francophone writings share some characteristics indicative of postcolonial literatures in general, they also have their own unique set of characteristics, including issues of migration, stereotyping, continued relationships with France, and creolization. This book gathers together some of the best-known francophone literary scholars to examine various francophone texts through a postcolonial lens.

Contents:

Introduction
1. Productive Intersections, by Anne Donadey and H. Adlai Murdoch

Part I. Rethinking Theoretical Beginnings
2. Power, Purpose, the Presumptuousness of Postcoloniality, and Frantz Fanon's Peau noire, masques blancs, by E. Anthony Hurley
3. Unfathomable Toussaint: The (Un)Making of a Hero, by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
4. A Neglected Precursor: Roland Barthes and the Origins of Postcolonialism, by Alec G. Hargreaves

Part II. Postcolonialism, Modernity, and French Identities
5. Nomadic Thought, Postcolonialism, and Maghrebian Writing, by John D. Erickson
6. Narratives of Internal Exile: Cixous, Derrida, and the Vichy Years in Algeria, by Ronnie Scharfman
7. Mémoires d'Immigrés: Bougnoul for What? by Kenneth W. Harrow
8. French Interwar Cinema as Vernacular Modernism: Pabst's Drame de Shanghai(1938), by Winifred Woodhull

Part III. Displacing Francophonie: Migration and Transcultural Identities
9. Quebec and France: La Francophonie in a Comparative Postcolonial Frame, by Eloise A. Brière
10. Displaced Discourses: Post(-)coloniality, Francophone Space(s), and the Literature(s) of Immigration in France, by Michel Laronde
11. The Francophone Postcolonial Field, by Jacques Coursil and Delphine Perret

Part IV. Theorizing the Black Atlantic
12. Borders, Books, and Points de Repere, by Renée Larrier
13. Francophone Studies / Postcolonial Studies: 'Postcolonializing' through Relation, by Anjali Prabhu and Ato Quayson
14. Intersections and Trajectories: Francophone Studies and Postcolonial Theory, by Dominic Thomas
15. Afterword: Francophonie, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms, by Françoise Lionnet

H. Adlai Murdoch is associate professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.