R. Amar, F. Sequer-Sabi (éds.), The Representation of the Relationship between Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Novel

Ruth Amar & Françoise Sequer-Sabin, eds.,

The Representation of the Relationship between Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Novel. 

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

The volume contains a significant number of chapters on contemporary French-language writers and directors (French Maghrebian literature, Pierre Michon, Chad Chenouga, Serge Joncour, Patrick Modiano, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Georges Perec, the French banlieue novel, François Bégaudeau, Wilfried N'Sondé, Michel Houellebecq and Marie N'Diaye) and will interest scholars and students alike.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

--Ruth Amar and Françoise Saquer-Sabin

INTRODUCTION

--Ruth Amar, "Some Philosophical Notions on Center and Periphery and their Influence on the French Contemporary Novel"

--Nitza Ben-Dov, "Voyages and Sacrifices—at the Heart of the Contemporary Hebrew Novel"

--Robert Elbaz, "Center and Periphery in French Maghrebian Literature"

PART I - WRITING STRATEGIES AND RETERRITORIALIZATION

--Larisa Fialkova, "Center and Periphery in Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Dystopian Novels"

--Nicolas Dreyer, "The Comic, the Grotesque, and Skaz: Post-Soviet Literary Strategies of Coping with Marginality"

--Natasha Gordinsky, "Writing in a Post-Soviet Jewish Language: Anya Ulinich’s Petropolis"

PART II - MARGINALITY AND INTERMEDIARY SPACES

--Silvia Adler and Galia Yanoshevsky, "Center and Periphery in Ilana Zeffren’s Autobiographical Graphic Novel Pink Story (2005)"

--Yona Hanhart-Marmor, "Pierre Michon: aux marges de l’écriture"

--Stéphane Chaudier and Joël July, "Centre et periphérie dans deux récits français contemporains"

--Dennis Sobolev, "The Construction of Space, Spatial Predicament and the Problem of Freedom in Firefly"

PART III - REVISITED URBAN SPACES

--France Grenaudier-Klijn, "Neither Periphery, Nor Center: Patrick Modiano’s “Zones Neutres” in Fleurs de ruine and Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue"

--Maria Giovanna Petrillo, "The Italian City in Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Works: Center and Suburb"

--Nurit Levy, "Marginality at Work: The Imaginary Island or the Enclosed Spaces in the City. A Journey into the Labyrinth of Memory with Georges Perec and Paul Auster"

PART IV - WHEN PERIPHERY BECOMES CENTER

--Christina Horvath, "Connecting the Margins: Geographical Complexity and International Networks in the French Banlieue Novel"

--Nelly Wolf, "Intramural, Extramural, Center and Periphery in François Bégaudeau’s The Class"

--Françoise Saquer-Sabin, "The Question of Passage between Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Hebrew Novella—Examples of Sami Berdugo and Dudu Busi"

--Michèle Tauber, "The In-Between: A Blurring of Identity between Center and Periphery in Ya‘aqov Shabtaï’s Past Continuous (1977) and Maylis de Kerangal’s Birth of a Bridge (2010)"

PART V - MODALITY OF CONFRONTATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY

--Rachel Quastel, "Biblical Fantasy as a pre-Zionist Chora in Shimon Adaf’s A Mere Mortal and Eli Bar-Chen’s Sinai’s Scar"

--Gary D. Mole, "Breaking Barriers: Passionate Love and Dispassionate Hate in Wilfried N’Sondé’s Berlinoise"

--Anthony Zielonka, "The Exploration of Center and Periphery in two Novels by Michel Houellebecq and Marie Ndiaye"

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