Irish Journal of French Studies, n° 20 (2020): "Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature" (S. Arens & J. Ford)
Irish Journal of French Studies, n° 20 (2020):
"Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature"
Guest Editors: Sarah Arens and Joseph Ford
ADEFFI / Ingenta Connect, 2020
Publication date: 1 November 2020
ISSN (electronic): 2009-941X
Comité éditorial:
Michael G. Kelly (General Editor) Dónal Hassett, Greg Kerr, Áine Larkin, Rosalind Silvester
Contents
Introduction: Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature (Sarah Arens and Joseph Ford)
Le poète et sa ‘vieille marotte calamiteuse’: Figures et variations du grotesque dans la poésie de Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (Khalid Lyamlahy)
Deconstructing the Grotesque in Contemporary Francophone Algerian Literature, or: How to Move Beyond the ‘Zombified’ State? (Joseph Ford)
Regards croisés: Signifiances du corps et déconstruction identitaire du pouvoir dans La Vie et demie de Sony Labou Tansi (Aminata Aïdara)
Room to Manoeuvre: Moving Beyond the Grotesque in Tierno Monénembo’s Convivial Space (Hannah Grayson)
The Grotesque and Obscene in post-Cold War Africa: Mbembe and the Child Soldier Novel (George MacLeod)
Killer Stories: ‘Globalizing’ the Grotesque in Alain Mabanckou’s African Psycho and Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce (Sarah Arens)
Varia
Barthes, Didi-Huberman et l’image pathétique (Daniele Carluccio)
In Memoriam
Barbara Wright (1925-2019)
Book Reviews / Comptes rendus
Maria Flood, France, Algeria and the Moving Image. Screening Histories of Violence 1963-2010 (Patrick Crowley)
Roger Pensom, Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse (Sarah Gubbins)
Guillevic (éd. M. Brophy), Écrits intimes. Carnet, Cahier, Feuillets 1929-1938 (Michael G. Kelly)
Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh (eds.), Women and the City in French Literature and Culture: Reconfiguring the Feminine in the Urban Environment (Lauren Quigley)
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