Free Download Melanie Hackney and Aaron Emmitte, "Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in French and Francophone Literature"
English | ISBN: 1443831573 | 2011 | 125 pages | PDF | 1051 KB
This study explores the diverse representations of sexuality, eroticism, and gender as expressed in French and Francophone literary thought both past and present. From Françoise de Graffigny s epistolary 'refusal' of eroticism to the challenge of nineteenth-century notions of rape in the novels of Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, and Eugène Sue to desire and eroticism as social taboo in the surrealist works of Georges Bataille and Luis Buñuel its historical focus demonstrates that issues of sexuality, eroticism, and gender existed at the heart of France s literary tradition long before they became a staple in its universities. Taking a more contemporary view, it examines the notion of écriture féminine in such authors as Monique Wittig, Anne F. Garréta, Nina Bouraoui, Assia Djebar, and Luce Iragaray, and also challenges accusations of misogyny in the works of Michel Houellebecq.

Free Download Jamie Steele, "Francophone Belgian Cinema "
English | ISBN: 1474420761 | 2019 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms. Alongside the Dardenne brothers, this book considers four promising Francophone Belgian filmmakers who have received limited critical attention in academic publications on contemporary European cinema: Joachim Lafosse, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Lucas Belvaux and Bouli Lanners. Exploring these filmmakers' themes of post-industrialism, paternalism, the fractured nuclear family and spatial dynamics, as well as their work in the more commercial road movie and polar genres, Jamie Steele analyses their stylistic continuities and filiation. This is complemented by an analysis of how the industrial aspects of film production, distribution and exhibition contribute to the creation of both a regional and transnational cinema.

Free Download Antonia Wimbush, "Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile "
English | ISBN: 1800859910 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.

Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to Be Written and Its Refusal
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031166272 | 352 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
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.

Tony Chafer, Alexander Keese, "Francophone Africa at fifty"
English | 2018 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 1526122855, 0719089301 | PDF | 1,8 mb
France's presence on the African continent has often been presented as 'cooperation' and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris - and quite as often been denounced as 'the longest scandal of the republic' by French academics and African intellectuals. Between the last years of French colonialism and France's sustained interventions in former African colonies such as Chad or Côte d'Ivoire during the 2000s, the legacy of French colonialism has shaped the historical trajectory of more than a dozen countries and societies in Africa. The complexities of this story are now, for the first time, addressed in a comprehensive series of essays, based on new research by a group of specialists in French colonial history. The book addresses the needs of both academic specialists and those of students of history and neighbouring disciplines looking for structural analysis of key themes in France's and Africa's shared history.

Martin O'Shaughnessy, "Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis "
English | ISBN: 1474448623 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shape our politics and societies. Bringing French and francophone Belgian films into dialogue with carefully selected theories, O'Shaughnessy develops insights and an analytical framework that will become important resources for other scholars of contemporary cinema.

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, "The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean"
English | ISBN: 0823275159 | 2017 | 272 pages | EPUB | 521 KB
The writer Gabriel Audisio once called the Mediterranean a "liquid continent." Taking up the challenge issued by Audisio's phrase, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev insists that we understand the region on both sides of the Mediterranean through a "transcontinental" heuristic. Rather than merely read the Maghreb in the context of its European colonizers from across the Mediterranean, Talbayev compellingly argues for a transmaritime deployment of the Maghreb across the multiple Mediterranean sites to which it has been materially and culturally bound for millennia.

Katharine N. Harrington, "Writing the Nomadic Experience in Contemporary Francophone Literature "
English | ISBN: 0739175718 | 2012 | 154 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In this book, Author Katharine N. Harrington examines contemporary writers from the French-speaking world who can be classified as literary "nomads." The concept of nomadism, based on the experience of traditionally mobile peoples lacking any fixed home, reflects a postmodern way of thinking that encourages individuals to reconsider rigid definitions of borders, classifications, and identities. Nomadic identities reflect shifting landscapes that defy taking on fully the limits of any one fixed national or cultural identity. In conceiving of identities beyond the boundaries of national or cultural origin, this book opens up the space for nomadic subjects whose identity is based just as much on their geographical displacement and deterritorialization as on a relationship to any one fixed place, community, or culture. This study explores the experience of an existence between borders and its translation into writing that.

The Author as CannibaRewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969–1995 | 5.96 MB
English | 289 Pages

Title: The Author As Cannibal
Author: Felisa Vergara Reynolds;
Year: 2022

The Author as Cannibal - Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969–1995
pdf | 5.96 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-1496218421 | Author: Felisa Vergara Reynolds; | Year: 2022