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Author: 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: 9780198893134
ISBN 10: 0198893132
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Is French literature locked into a white privilege that makes it incapable of thinking about race? A provocative reflection on the future of French universalism in the post-colonial era, taking us on a remarkable journey through contemporary 'white' literary creation. * Alexandre Gefen, Directeur de Recherche (CNRS) Author of La littérature est une affaire politique (2022) and Réparer le monde : La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (2017) *
Is French literature locked into a white privilege that makes it incapable of thinking about race? A provocative reflection on the future of French universalism in the post-colonial era, taking us on a remarkable journey through contemporary 'white' literary creation. * Alexandre Gefen, Directeur de Recherche (CNRS) Author of La littérature est une affaire politique (2022) and Réparer le monde : La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (2017) * This book is a key intervention that no serious scholar of contemporary French literature can ignore. Debunking the claims to colour-blindness ingrained in republican universalist discourse, it challenges us to foreground the figure of the White writer in debates about race, culture and the afterlives of empire in France. The result is a robust refusal of any assumptions regarding the neutrality of Whiteness in French contexts and an assertion of the importance of postcoloniality for understandings of White and non-White authors alike. * Charles Forsdick, Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge * This book is a key intervention that no serious scholar of contemporary French literature can ignore. Debunking the claims to colour-blindness ingrained in republican universalist discourse, it challenges us to foreground the figure of the White writer in debates about race, culture and the afterlives of empire in France. The result is a robust refusal of any assumptions regarding the neutrality of Whiteness in French contexts and an assertion of the importance of postcoloniality for understandings of White and non-White authors alike. * Charles Forsdick, Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge *
Author Information
Étienne 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).
