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OverviewContemporary French writers have embarked on various quests for new sources of thematic and formal inspiration which are increasingly tied to issues of postcolonial legacies. However, French literature has never been consistently examined through the lens of race, ethnicity, and its relation to (post)coloniality. Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature is the first scholarly study to engage with the figure of the White writer and explore the White literary gaze in contemporary France. The book highlights the inherent postcoloniality of White Hexagonal literature in a context marked by institutionalized colour-blindness, and offers a reflection on responsible writing in and about postcolonial France.The book identifies a set of formal features, functions, and aesthetic dispositions which reveal the ways in which White writers grapple with postcolonial subjects. It focuses on seven case studies featuring texts by Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Annie Ernaux, Nicolas Fargues, Pierre Lemaitre, Édouard Louis, and Nicolas Mathieu. Achille and Panaïté argue that it is imperative to recast the enduring boundedness of race and empire as a matter of equal concern to White and non-White writers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Étienne Achille (Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Villanova University) , Oana Panaïté (Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Indiana University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.468kg ISBN: 9780198893134ISBN 10: 0198893132 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 31 March 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: The Universal Invisibility of the French White Writer: Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes by Marie Darrieussecq 2: Colonial Detail and Textual (Dys)Function: Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre 3: The Postcolonial as Vanishing Point: Les Années by Annie Ernaux 4: Chaos and Convergence: Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes 5: Postcolonial Otobiography: Histoire de la violence by Édouard Louis 6: Authoring Postcolonial Normality: Leurs enfants après eux by Nicolas Mathieu 7: Calling Out the iNovel: Je ne suis pas une héroïne by Nicolas Fargues Conclusion: The Kairos of White Writing. Building the Common Library of Literature in FrenchReviewsAuthor InformationÉtienne Achille is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Villanova University. His publications include the monograph Mythologies postcoloniales. Pour une décolonisation du quotidien (2018, co-authored with L. Moudileno;) and the volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory. Sites and Symbols in Modern France (2020, co-edited with C. Forsdick and L. Moudileno). Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012), The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French (2017), and Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory (2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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